fetch image

[Diez B. Roggisch]

asit wrote:

> import httplib
> 
> class Server:
>     #server class
>     def __init__(self, host):
>         self.host = host
>     def fetch(self, path):
>         http = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.host)
>         http.request("GET", path)
>         r = http.getresponse()
>         print str(r.status) + "  :  " + r.reason
> 
> server = Server("www.python.org")
> fp=open("phpvuln.txt")
> x=fp.readlines();
> for y in x:
>      server.fetch("/" + y);
> 
> The above code fetches only the html source of the webpage. How to get
> the image, flash animation and other stuffs ????

By parsing the result, extracting img-tags and others that contain
references, and fetching these explicitly.

The keywords on this for successful search are "python" and "crawling"
or "crawler". There are some out there, e.g. here:

http://weblab.infosci.cornell.edu/documentation/webbackscript

Diez