tarfile : read from a socket?

[Ulli Horlacher]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like tarfile needs a seekable file. How big is this file you're
> reading?

No limits. It can be many TBs...

The use case is:

http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:8080/


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