urllib download insanity

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu May 12 10:45:56 EDT 2005


    Timothy> i DELETED the file from my webserver, uploaded the new
    Timothy> one. when my app logs in it checks the file, if it's changed it
    Timothy> downloads it. the impossible part, is that on my pc is
    Timothy> downloading the OLD file i've deleted! if i download it via IE,
    Timothy> i get the new file. SO, my only conculsion is that urllib is
    Timothy> caching it some where. BUT i'm already calling urlcleanup(), so
    Timothy> what else can i do?  here is the code

Is there a proxy between you and the web server?

Skip



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