Function download

pattern/web/__init__.py:521–525

Downloads the content at the given URL (by default it will be cached locally). Unless unicode=False, the content is returned as a unicode string.

(url=u"", method=GET, query={}, timeout=10, cached=True, throttle=0, proxy=None, user_agent=USER_AGENT, referrer=REFERRER, authentication=None, unicode=False)

        return URL(self.string, self.method, self.query)

def download(url=u"", method=GET, query={}, timeout=10, cached=True, throttle=0, proxy=None, user_agent=USER_AGENT, referrer=REFERRER, authentication=None, unicode=False):
    """ Downloads the content at the given URL (by default it will be cached locally).
        Unless unicode=False, the content is returned as a unicode string.
    """
    return URL(url, method, query).download(timeout, cached, throttle, proxy, user_agent, referrer, authentication, unicode)

#url = URL("http://user:pass@example.com:992/animal/bird?species#wings")
#print url.parts