On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:24:44AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 1) test it with urlgrabber directly. Run "python" from the command
> > line and then type in these commands:
> >
> >>>> from urlgrabber.grabber import URLGrabber
> >>>> g = URLGrabber()
> >>>> g.urlgrab('ftp://username:passowrd@xxxxxxxxxx/path/to/file')
>
> Michael, hope you are still with me... sorry to reply so late..
I'm not going anywhere :)
> I cannot get past the first line. When I hit <ENTER> to add the next
> line of input I get this error
> >>> from urlgrabber.grabber import URLGrabber
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named urlgrabber.grabber
Hmm.. ok
rpm -q fedora-release
rpm -q yum
rpm -qa python\*
rpm -ql yum | grep urlgrabber
> Does something else need to be loaded first? Or am I entering it
> wrong"
> I typed `python' <ENTER>
> from urlgrabber.grabber import URLGrabber <ENTER>
No. I think that should work.
> > 2) Try your url with another client. I know the same syntax won't
> > work, so remove the username:password part and just enter them the way
> > that client expects you to.
>
> The url scheme works ok with ncftp:
> ncftp -u xxxxx -p xxxxx ftp://reader.local.net0:~/no_bak/fedraw
>
> Lands me inside the /home/reader/no_bak/fedraw directory which is
> really a symlink to /mnt/pack/fedraw
Ok. That's good information. It could still be ftplib being dumb.
When we get direct access to urlgrabber working (above), then try some
different paths - ones without symlinks, etc.
-Michael
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Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619
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