[twill] Downloading a .zip file

[Adam Victor Nazareth Brandizzi]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Avi Bar Massada <barmassada at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Thanks again Adam, see my comments below.
>>
>> That is pretty strange... It can be a problem with the compression
>> software you are using. Could you send us the script you are using?
>>
> Right now I'm using the python command line in Windows XP. I used the
> following commands:
>
> import twill
> from twill.commands import *
> go("http://data.gbif.org/download/downloadReady.htm?downloadFile=occurrence-search-12978055989365071032693658999911.zip")
> follow("occurrence-search-12978055989365071032693658999911.zip")
> save_html("occurrence.zip")
>
> By the way, I tried to follow your original code (the one that points to
> http://jsfcompref.appspot.com/faces/chapter04.zip) and got exactly the same
> errors...

Well, I'm trying it on a Mac so I cannot emulate your environment... Sorry.

It seems either a problem with your environment or (more probable) a
bug in twill. A not-so-buggy bug, anyway, because the "save_html"
method is used mainly for, well, save HTML. If I remember well,
Windows differentiates between binary (such as ZIP) and text files
(such as HTML) and saves them in different ways. Since you are using a
function made or saving HTML to save a ZIP file, it can be the
problem.

>>> BTW, if I save the
>>> file without the .zip suffix, and open it from its new location, it
>>> prompts
>>> me straight to the download dialogue box.
>>
>> Do you mean the browser download dialog box? That is way stranger :)
>>
> Yup, this is the browser download dialogue box...

Well, good luck! I hope you solve your problem :)

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