Actually, HTTP does work that way. You can retrieve multiple files through a
single connection.

Michael J. Sheldon
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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Rod
Roark
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 18:13
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: FW: [Tutor] Writing a web bot.


HTTP doesn't work that way.  The server is going to kill the connection
after responding to each request.

-- Rod
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> It appears I have found myself in a position
> where I could use some help.
>
> The task I am trying to perform is write an
> internet bot.  I was going to use urllib for
> this project however one of the requirements
> is for the connection to be continuous during
> the session.
>
> Connect to a site.
> Get page, parse.
> Get another page, parse.
> use POST method, get another page, parse.
> Disconnect from the site.
>
> The connection is not supposed to be dropped
> between the requests.
>
> Is there a simple way to do this task???
>
> thanks.

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