Python and remote sensing

[William Park]

Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> a technician of us asked me whether it is possible to do the following:
> 
> 
> Starting a script on Unix at lets say 2 am and calling a remote site 
> (http://www.whatever...) and that site should become passively processed 
> (the site holds 41 observing stations). Is it possible to start a remote 

Not sure what "passively processed" means.  If you are talking about
fetching webpages periodically, then crontab and any script will do.

> script (automatically) connect to a http page and retrieve information 
> from that html-page?
> 
> I answerd Perl or Python can do the job. But I am not sure whether that 
> is correct.
> 
> I am sure the above topic has been asked 1000 times. Or is there a tool 
> or program availabe which can do the job better?; I mean our technican 
> has never heard of Python and I am not interested to make web based (put 
> in the right term here) programming or the like.
> 
> If Python can do it - okay; if not please say so (if Python is dead - 
> okay; if Python lives - okay)!
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> S. Gonzi
> 

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