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33 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
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<pkgmetadata>
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<herd>python</herd>
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<longdescription>
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A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber.
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Using urlgrabber, data can be fetched in three basic ways:
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urlgrab(url) copy the file to the local filesystem
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urlopen(url) open the remote file and return a file object (like urllib2.urlopen)
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urlread(url) return the contents of the file as a string
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When using these functions (or methods), urlgrabber supports the following
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features:
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* identical behavior for http://, ftp://, and file:// urls
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* http keepalive - faster downloads of many files by using only a single
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connection
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* byte ranges - fetch only a portion of the file
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* reget - for a urlgrab, resume a partial download
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* progress meters - the ability to report download progress automatically,
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even when using urlopen!
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* throttling - restrict bandwidth usage
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* retries - automatically retry a download if it fails. The number of retries
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and failure types are configurable.
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* authenticated server access for http and ftp
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* proxy support - support for authenticated http and ftp proxies
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* mirror groups - treat a list of mirrors as a single source, automatically
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switching mirrors if there is a failure.
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</longdescription>
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</pkgmetadata>
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