On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:09 PM, xbmuncher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to download a file via HTTP GET protocol (perhaps HTTP POST in the > future, whatever method should allow relativly easy changes to be made to > use POST later on) > I need to send custom headers like in urllib2.urlrequest() > I need to be able to monitor the download progress WHILE it downloads like > the hook function in urllib > > I looked into urllib2 and it did everything except allow me to check the > progress of the download during the download, it only downloads the file > first with urlopen(). I also tried urllib and the reporthook function is > great, except I can't send custom headers! I wish I could send a REQ object > to the urlretrieve() function in urllib that way I can prepare those custom > headers.. :( > > Anyways, i would appreciate if soemone could write me a quick example to do > this, or point me to the right library/funcs to do it. I want to be able to > do it in native python libraries.
urllib2.urlopen() doesn't read the data from the remote site, it returns a file-like object with a read() method. You can read the data in chunks and call a reporthook yourself. Take a look at the source to URLopener.retrieve() in urllib.py for some hints. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
