On Feb 15, 11:56 am, rushik <rushik.upadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to build python script which retreives and analyze the > various URLs and generate reports. > > Some of the urls are like "http://xyz.com/test.html.gz", I am trying > to retreive it using urllib2 library and then using gzip library > trying to decompress it. > > ex - server_url is say -http://xyz.com/test.html.gz > > logpage = urllib2.urlopen(server_url) > html_content = cal_logpage.read() > logpage.close() > > gz_tmp = open("gzip.txt.gz", "w") > gz_tmp.write(html_content) > gz_tmp.close() > f = gzip.open("gzip.txt.gz", "rb") > file_content = f.read() > f.close() > > #return the resulting html content. > return html_content > > on executing the code, its giving > > zlib.error - Error -3 while decompressing: invalid distance too far > back > > the same URL I am able to retreive in proper html page format from > browser > > please let me know if I am doing something wrong here, or is there any > other better way to do so. > > Thanks, > R
I got the solution !! using now urllib.retrieve thx, R -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list