[IronPython] urllib.urlretrieve with IronPython 2a8

[Michael Foord]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> Certainly sounds like a bug - did this work before alpha 8?
>   

I don't *think* it has ever worked - but problems with urllib/urllib2 
seem to be one of the most common frustrations with IronPython for 
people coming from Python so I thought it was worth flagging.

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:27 AM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: [IronPython] urllib.urlretrieve with IronPython 2a8
>
> IronPython 2.0 Alpha (2.0.0.800) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>  >>> import urllib
>  >>>
> urllib.urlretrieve('http://python-twitter.googlecode.com/files/python-twitte
> r-0.5.tar.gz', 'python-twitter.tar.gz')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File System, line unknown, in Read
>   File System, line unknown, in Receive
>   File System, line unknown, in Receive
>   File c:\Python24\Lib\urllib.py, line 248, in retrieve
>   File System, line unknown, in Read
>   File , line unknown, in ##269
>   File c:\Python24\Lib\urllib.py, line 89, in urlretrieve
> IOError: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Cannot
> access a disp
> osed object.
> Object name: 'System.Net.Sockets.Socket'..
>
>
>
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
> (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import urllib
>  >>>
> urllib.urlretrieve('http://python-twitter.googlecode.com/files/python-twitte
> r-0.5.tar.gz', 'python-twitter.tar.gz')
> ('python-twitter.tar.gz', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x01864E40>)
>  >>>
>
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