On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Stefan Behnel wrote: > > Robert P. J. Day schrieb: > > that is, i can just say, "go get file gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2", and start > > searching at "ftp://pub.gnu.org/pub/gcc";. i may not know how far down > > in the directory structure that file is, but wget will happily search > > recursively until it finds it. > > That sounds pretty inefficient and should produce some load on the > server side. Imagine everyone doing that. Many FTP-servers provide > files like "ls-R.gz" somewhere, meaning, a list of files and > directories.
i realize that and, as much as possible, i try to start the process with what i *know* is the actual directory location. but occasionally, if i can't guarantee an exact directory, i just want the option to start a bit higher up the directory structure. i wasn't going to make a habit of it, it's more an absolute last resort, if it comes down to it. > And then, there's Google. Why do you have to use FTP? Ask Google for > "yourfile.tar.bz2 site:the.domain.name". It will very likely return > a suitable URL for you that you can use for download. Just tried it > with "site:ftp.gnu.org gcc-3.4.2.tar.bz2" - works. You can even use > that link and try to replace "http://"; with "ftp://"; for download. > Should work for many source repositories. > > You can use urllib2 for both querying and download. and that pretty much answers the question i had. much thanks. and now that i have my answer, i might have to unsubscribe. you guys sure are a chatty bunch. :) rday p.s. just kidding. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
