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| 55 | <H2><A NAME="SECTION0013410000000000000000"></A><A NAME="urlopener-objs"></A> |
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| 57 | 11.4.1 URLopener Objects |
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| 60 | <P> |
| 61 | <tt class="class">URLopener</tt> and <tt class="class">FancyURLopener</tt> objects have the |
| 62 | following attributes. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | <P> |
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| 66 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-3212' xml:id='l2h-3212' class="method">open</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 67 | <td><var>fullurl</var><big>[</big><var>, data</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 68 | <dd> |
| 69 | Open <var>fullurl</var> using the appropriate protocol. This method sets |
| 70 | up cache and proxy information, then calls the appropriate open method with |
| 71 | its input arguments. If the scheme is not recognized, |
| 72 | <tt class="method">open_unknown()</tt> is called. The <var>data</var> argument |
| 73 | has the same meaning as the <var>data</var> argument of <tt class="function">urlopen()</tt>. |
| 74 | </dl> |
| 75 | |
| 76 | <P> |
| 77 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 78 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-3213' xml:id='l2h-3213' class="method">open_unknown</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 79 | <td><var>fullurl</var><big>[</big><var>, data</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 80 | <dd> |
| 81 | Overridable interface to open unknown URL types. |
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| 85 | <dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"> |
| 86 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-3214' xml:id='l2h-3214' class="method">retrieve</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 87 | <td><var>url</var><big>[</big><var>, |
| 88 | filename</var><big>[</big><var>, |
| 89 | reporthook</var><big>[</big><var>, data</var><big>]</big><var></var><big>]</big><var></var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 90 | <dd> |
| 91 | Retrieves the contents of <var>url</var> and places it in <var>filename</var>. The |
| 92 | return value is a tuple consisting of a local filename and either a |
| 93 | <tt class="class">mimetools.Message</tt> object containing the response headers (for remote |
| 94 | URLs) or <code>None</code> (for local URLs). The caller must then open and read the |
| 95 | contents of <var>filename</var>. If <var>filename</var> is not given and the URL |
| 96 | refers to a local file, the input filename is returned. If the URL is |
| 97 | non-local and <var>filename</var> is not given, the filename is the output of |
| 98 | <tt class="function">tempfile.mktemp()</tt> with a suffix that matches the suffix of the last |
| 99 | path component of the input URL. If <var>reporthook</var> is given, it must be |
| 100 | a function accepting three numeric parameters. It will be called after each |
| 101 | chunk of data is read from the network. <var>reporthook</var> is ignored for |
| 102 | local URLs. |
| 103 | |
| 104 | <P> |
| 105 | If the <var>url</var> uses the <span class="file">http:</span> scheme identifier, the optional |
| 106 | <var>data</var> argument may be given to specify a <code>POST</code> request |
| 107 | (normally the request type is <code>GET</code>). The <var>data</var> argument |
| 108 | must in standard <span class="mimetype">application/x-www-form-urlencoded</span> format; |
| 109 | see the <tt class="function">urlencode()</tt> function below. |
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| 115 | Variable that specifies the user agent of the opener object. To get |
| 116 | <tt class="module"><a href="module-urllib.html">urllib</a></tt> to tell servers that it is a particular user agent, |
| 117 | set this in a subclass as a class variable or in the constructor |
| 118 | before calling the base constructor. |
| 119 | </dl> |
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| 122 | The <tt class="class">FancyURLopener</tt> class offers one additional method that |
| 123 | should be overloaded to provide the appropriate behavior: |
| 124 | |
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| 128 | <td><var>host, realm</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
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| 130 | Return information needed to authenticate the user at the given host |
| 131 | in the specified security realm. The return value should be a tuple, |
| 132 | <code>(<var>user</var>, <var>password</var>)</code>, which can be used for basic |
| 133 | authentication. |
| 134 | |
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| 136 | The implementation prompts for this information on the terminal; an |
| 137 | application should override this method to use an appropriate |
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