download x bytes at a time over network

[R. David Murray]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:17:56 +0000 (UTC), "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> >Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:15:23 +0530, Saurabh <phonethics at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> This isn't exactly how things work.  The server *sends* you bytes.  It can
> >> >> send you a lot at once.  To some extent you can control how much it sends
> >> >> before it waits for you to catch up, but you don't have anywhere near
> >> >> byte-level control (you might have something like 32kb or 64kb level
> >> >> control).
> >> >
> >> >What abt in Python3 ?
> >> >It seems to have some header like the one below : b'b495 - binary mode
> >> >with 46229 bytes ? Or is it something else ?
> >>
> >> That's just a bug in urllib in Python 3.0.
> >
> >What makes you say that's a bug?  Did I miss something?  (Which is entirely
> >possible!)
> 
> I saw it in the Python issue tracker. :)  Python 3.0 broke handling of
> chunked HTTP responses.  Instead of interpreting the chunk length prefixes,
> it delivered them as part of the response.

Ah, got you.  Thanks for the info.

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