Re: Building browser-like GET request

2007-04-24 Thread Gilles Ganault
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:07:57 -0400, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On a point of information, Wireshark wokrs very effectively under >Windows. The only thing you shouldn't expect to be able to do is tap >into the loopback network, and that's down to the Windows driver structure. Thanks

Re: Building browser-like GET request

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Björn Keil wrote: [...] > > I hope that helped and I wasn't telling things you already new. > As a sidenote: For the task you describe I'd rather use an actual > sniffer - such as Wireshark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark), > than logs of a Proxy... Not sure wether Wireshark works under Wi

Re: Building browser-like GET request

2007-04-21 Thread Gilles Ganault
On 21 Apr 2007 14:47:55 -0700, Björn Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, I am brand new to Python, so it takes me a lot of guessing, but >since it seems you're using urlib2: Thanks. Indeed, it looks like urlib2 is the way to go when going through a proxy. For those interested, here's how to d

Re: Building browser-like GET request

2007-04-21 Thread Björn Keil
On 21 Apr., 23:28, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to download pages from a site, but it checks whether > the requests are coming from a live user or a script; If the latter, > the server returns a blank page. > > Using a proxy (Paros), I can see what information my script and

Building browser-like GET request

2007-04-21 Thread Gilles Ganault
Hello I'd like to download pages from a site, but it checks whether the requests are coming from a live user or a script; If the latter, the server returns a blank page. Using a proxy (Paros), I can see what information my script and FireFox send, and there are a lot of information that P