I guess this is kind of a stupid question, but I have tried to search for the answere on google and here with no luck.
So I am connection to a API using a Get request with the http.client package.
The get request is sent to a adress with a ziped file. Sending the request goes ok, and I get a returned object. What I want to do next is to just save the returned file to a folder.
I have tried looking in the http.client documentation withount finding anything about it.
This is an example of how the code looks like. I have had to remove some of it for privacy reasons
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("Adress to the server")
headers = {
'cache-control': "no-cache",
}
conn.request("GET", path_to_file + "?authTicket=" + ticket,
headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
return res
The code runs ok, but my problem is what to do next. If the returned data was just a normal json file I would just do something like:
data = res.read()
data = data.decode("uft-8")
And then be able to work with it inside the script. But I have no idea how to handel the ziped file that is returned. I would idealy like to unzip it before saving, but as a start it is ok to just save it to file.
Hope someone have a simple solution to this.
I did look a bit more into it, and when using the getheaders() on the returned object I get this:
[('Date', 'Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:48:41 GMT'),
('Content-Type', 'application/octet-stream; charset=UTF-8'),
('Content-Disposition', 'attachment;filename=filename.csv.gz'),
('Content-Length', '2117014'),
('Server', 'Jetty(9.2.17.v20160517)')]
im not sure if that is relevant, but I guess I now would need a way to download the attachement.