Alex Stapleton wrote: > Except wouldn't it of already read the entire file when it opened, or does > it occour on the first read()?
Don't know, sorry. Try looking at the source code - it should be reasonably obvious. > Also will the data returned from > handle.read(100) be raw HTTP? In which case what if the encoding is chunked > or gzipped? > No - you get html - with the http stuff already handled (at least to the best of my knowledge). Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list