designing downloader apllication in python

[ali rana]

hello!

i am a new programmer to python and developing a downloader application which can run on windows and linux (if it can). i have a working experience in C and C++. can any one help me out that how a downloader actually works? what is the statistics of a downloader? how it will be coded? can any one post the source code of any downloader? through which i can get idea that how will it be designed? i want to create a very simple application not much complexity. like main and basic options of any downloader.

[Bachstelze]

You can get the source for wget (which is the de facto standard download program for Linux) from the GNU FTP.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.gz

A bit simpler is fetch, which is the program used on BSD systems. Tell me if you would like the source for that.

[unutbu]

To write a downloader written in python you'd probably want to familiarize yourself with the urllib2 module:
http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html#module-urllib2

There are examples near the end of the page.

[ali rana]

thnx Bachstelzes (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=51114) for your help. ya if have its code plz let me borrow it.

[ali rana]

can any one else help me out a bit more about my problem?

[Bachstelze]

Here you go

[ali rana]

thnx Bachstelzes.

[ali rana]

thanks unutbu for your help