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STS WebGet

STS WebGet is a Python Package interfacing urllib2 and handlers, cookielib, http and ntlm modules to provide for quick-turnaround web client applications. It's capable of transferring files with URL syntax, recognising file, http, and https.

Note: This project is closed. Refer to Information below

It currently supports the following authentication protocols:

Custom headers
Basic authentication
Digest authentication
Proxy authorization - no authentication
Proxy authorization - Basic authentication
Proxy authorization - Digest authentication
Cookies - loads cookies from file with cookiejar handling
Cookies - static cookie string

The following http components are also handled:

http 0.9, 1.0 and 1.1
https/ssl/tls - does not verify if certificate is present
Cookie handling - cookie jar recognises Set-cookie in header
Compression handling (gzip) - Faster downloads (60%)
301, 302 redirect handling
HTTP Proxy handling only

Information

Version: 0.6
Release Date: February 06, 2007
License: GPL v2
Development Status: Closed. Due to unimplemented "Feature Requests" in Python (PEP 268) it was decided this project would not have any more resources devoted to it.

Requirements

Python 2.5 or greater - You can download Python from http://www.python.org/

Authenticity

md5sum - de2af3fb08b2767952237b6894d08742 sts-webget.tar.gz

How To

import WebGet, os

# create a WebGet cookie
c = WebGet.WebGetCookie()
c.browsertype = WebGet.MOZILLA
c.path = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], "/.netscape/cookies.txt")

# create a WebGet instance
wg = WebGet.WebGet('http', 'www.securitytechscience.com', 80, c)

# set some variables
wg.add_header('Country','Australia')
wg.set_proxy('127.0.0.1', 8080)

# request the page -> sets both a wg.request and wg.response value
wg.open('/')

print wg

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