Srinivas Iyyer wrote: > For a third party to analyze data from that chip, we > should know the design of that chip and that > information is one file. In this case it is GAL file. > Since it is difficult and cumbersome to identify each > design file type of all chips and get it into your > directory. However, on their website SMD > (http://genome-www5.stanford.edu/), it is possible to > go to each design file and obtain the data. Since > this is a time taking procedure, I wrote a socket > script that would give me the URL of the file and > allowing me to download. The first barrier is, their > database does not allow sockets programming.
What did you try? How did it fail? The website requires a form-based login which probably returns a cookie to your browser. Your socket solution needs to take this into account. There are some articles here with more info: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles.shtml#http > > Unfortunately, I have to access each file (there could > be 40 - 100 files), get redirected to another page and > there I can be able to download. > > Is there a method to automate this procedure through a > browser. > > Is there any alternative for such clicks. There are several packages intended to help script web sites, take a look at twill http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill/ mechanize and ClientForm http://wwwsearch.sf.net/ http://python.org/pypi/mechanoid Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor