Thank you All for your suggestions: I could finally assess that
besides partial read from chunked url - by-passed thanks to a socket approach: f.i. this was good for me: http://python.about.com/od/networkingwithpython/ss/beg_web_client_9.htm I have still two kind of problems that quit this post's aims (original url is redirected and has password protections too, I will go for these now) Again SUPER thanks to You All:-) Aldo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
