Thanks guys. I am trying to build a browser-shell based database frontend and this will be very helpful.
On Sep 14, 10:32 pm, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > internally fetch() calls urllib if you're not on GAE: > > def fetch(url): > try: > from google.appengine.api.urlfetch import fetch > if url.find('?') >= 0: > (url, payload) = url.split('?') > return fetch(url, payload=payload).content > return fetch(url).content > except: > import urllib > return urllib.urlopen(url).read() > > On Sep 15, 7:09 am, Wes James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > import urllib > > > > html=urllib.urlopen(URL(.....)).read() > > > > On Sep 14, 2:47 pm, "V. K" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > >> I want to call a web2py web service from the shell and obtain the HTML > > >> response (not using a web browser). > > >> From example: > > > >> For the service:http://www....../a/c/f/x/y?z=t > > > >> Construct the URL object: > > > >> URL('a','c','f',args=['x','y'],vars = dict(z='t')) > > > >> and then how do I call the controller using this object to obtain the > > >> response HTML? > > > I just happened to stumble on this at the bottom of: > > >http://web2py.com/examples/default/tools > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > Fetch a URL > > > The Python module urllib does not work well on the Google App Engine. > > For this reason we created a portable function for fetching url that > > works everywhere, including GAE: > > > from gluon.tools import fetch > > html = fetch("http://www.web2py.com";) > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > -wes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
