download x bytes at a time over network

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http://code.activestate.com/recipes/114217/

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Saurabh <phonethics at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heres the reason behind wanting to get chunks at a time.
> Im actually retrieving data from a list of RSS Feeds and need to
> continuously check for latest posts.
> But I dont want to depend on Last-Modified header or the pubDate tag
> in <channel>. Because a lot of feeds just output date('now')  instead
> of the actual last-updated timestamp.
> But when continuously checking for latest posts, I dont want to
> bombard other people's bandwidth - so I just want to get chunks of
> bytes at a time and internally check for <item>...</item> with my
> database against timestamp values.
> Is there a better way to achieve this ?
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