Could someone explain how Internet Exploer cookies stored and how it retrived using the index.dat ,also could someone provide how this binray file is built and if there are a paserer/module/library for it written on perl /python ?
Have a look at HTTP::Cookies::Microsoft, part of libwww-perl.
Here is a series of blog posts I wrote about index.dat:
Index.dat: Part I - What is index.dat?
Index.dat: Part II - What are they used for?
Basically you'll need to be able to call the wininet UrlCacheEntry APIs from Perl. I think there is a win32 module that let's you do this.
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I want to make a Python script available as a service on the net. The script, which is my first 'proper' Python program, takes a txt file as argument and writes an image into the work directory. So:
How difficult is it for somebody who is new to Python and web development?
How much work is it?
Do I need a framework (Django, cherryPy, web2py)?
Are there good tutorials?
How do I avoid the server to be compromised?
What are my next steps?
==> What is the easiest way?
In the end it is enough, if it is a white page, with some text, and a button, which when clicked, opens a file dialog. After the txt is processed, the server should just return the image, which was written on the hard drive. Already I have access to a server which has Ubuntu installed through a friend.
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Thanks for all your answers. After reading them I want to stress again, that I want to have it as minimal as possible. Srikar's suggestion sounds like the easiest one:
Put it in executable directory of your OS (commonly known as CGI
path). Provide a simple HTML form & upon form submission hit this
script which executes & returns back the image you want to display.
Any objections or comments? Do you know any tutorials for that?
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I found this SO answer: File Sharing Site in Python Is this a sensible approach?
It's not too difficult. Actually, it sounds like a good first project.
That too subjective to answer. An hour to days.
No, you don't need one, but I'd use one if I were you. They abstract away some of the stuff you really don't care about, and you'll learn a tool you can use again in the future.
Plenty. If you want a real rundown of how Python works for the web, read the HOWTO from Python.org. If you just want to learn how to do this one project, pick a framework and do their tutorial.
This question is so broad and complex that I'm not going to try to answer it. Search this site, or Google, for questions like that.
Your next step should be to pick a framework; I've used Django successfully. Just download it, follow the installation instructions, and work your way through their tutorial; it should tell you everything you need to know to do what you want. If you still have questions once you've learned how to do the basics, come back and ask again!
Edit: The answer to that other question will certainly work for you. There, they just receive a GET request and respond with data from a Python file. You need to receive a GET request, respond with an HTML page (easy enough), then respond to a POST request that includes an uploaded file (slightly more complicated) and run your python routine on the uploaded file and then respond with the created image (or a link to it).
Take a look at this page which includes a simple Python script to do file uploads. You should easily be able to modify it to do what you want.
How difficult is it for somebody who is new to Python and web development?
Depends on your level of knowledge.
How much work is it?
Depends on which method you choose to solve the problem.
Do I need a framework (Django, cherryPy, web2py)?
Not necessarily - you could get started by using the CGI (http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html)
Are there good tutorials?
Yes, there are plenty. The Python docs are an excellent place to start.
How do I avoid the server to be compromised?
Again, depends on the method you choose to solve the problem, although there are commonalities.
What are my next steps?
Dare I say it again, choose a method, read the docs, have a play!
If its just as simple as you have described it. Then you might not even need Django. You could simply use CGI scripting. All of these design decisions, depend on whether
You need (or foresee) a SQL storage?
or a Content-Management-System?
Will you need multiple-user support?
Do you need tight security?
Do you need different privileges for different users?
Do you need an Admin to manage your site?
If the answer to above questions is atleast 60% correct, then you might consider Django. otherwise, just write a python script. Put it in executable directory of your OS (commonly known as CGI path). Provide a simple HTML form & upon form submission hit this script which executes & returns back the image you want to display. So, it all depends on the features you need...
In the end, I created what I needed with Flask.
They have a well documented pattern / tutorial on Uploading Files. The tutorial is understandable even for people with little python and web expericence.
To get a first working version it took me 2h and the resulting code was only 50 lines. This includes, starting the webserver, having a html file/form with file upload and serving a file back to the user.
My goal is to write some sort of chatterbot that speaks in spanish. I've seen examples for simple python chatterbots, but their answers are mostly just random. I want the bot to partially understand the question and formulate a response to it, like http://cleverbot.com does. I'm guessing I would want to use python for this since I want it to be a web app. What's involved in making something like this? Are there any libraries that do this already?
Thanks in advance for any help.
For a starting place, I'd take a look at the Natural Language Toolkit: http://www.nltk.org/.
Spanish chatterbots are listed on:
http://www.chatbots.org/language/spanish/
There is a forum for beginners 'New to chatbot programming'
http://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewforum/35/
And a document with the very first guidelines:
/ai_zone/viewthread/492/
And a support forum for a recent launched tool to build a chatbot your self, called ChatScript:
/ai_zone/viewforum/44/
As I new member, I'm only allowed to leave 2 hyperlinks, which I understand, but you probably know how to extend to the full URL :-)
If I add a feed URL to Google Reader or to a desktop feed aggregator, I receive nice results. The URL is:
http://estaticos03.marca.com/rss/futbol_1adivision.xml
But when I fetch the same URL from a script (python script, using feedparser library) I am getting slightly different content for the same results (the title for each entry, for example, is different and all in uppercase).
I believe something is done on the server-side to try to discourage people like me to parse the content for my own projects (the feed is from a popular football newspaper), but I am not sure about it. I tried to pass some user agents (like the google reader one) but still no luck, so maybe they check the IP as well? I am really confused.
Any idea why is this happening to me?
Thanks!
AFAIK Google Reader does some "magic" in the content to beautify it. They strip some tags and styles to avoid breaking their interface.
Can you provide more details on the differences?
Did you changed the user agent of your script? Try to mimic Firefox and see what happen.
All right folks, I found it. I analyzed the source XML received (as #TryPyPy). I had been trusting too much the feedparser library. Latest official version (4.1) has a bug related to mistakeing the title tag from media namespace instead of the original one:
http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=76
So I reinstalled from trunk and now everything is OK. Thanks for helping anyway!
Hey guys, I have an idea that I'd like to start implementing that at the crux of it, will basically be a chat website, and will need to support multiple rooms. Quite frankly, I'm not too sure where to begin with regards to setting up a very sturdy/scalable chat system in python (or another language if you guys believe it to be a better alternative), so any suggestions that can get me pointed in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.
Look into XMPP. Here's the list of Python libraries.
Google AppEngine supports python provides scalable framework. Probably you'll save lots of time if you use it.
I'm writing a small html editor in python mostly for personal use and have integrated a gtksourceview2 object into my Python code. All the mayor functions seem to work more or less, but I'm having trouble getting a search function to work. Obvioiusly the GUI work is already done, but I can't figure out how to somehow buildin methods of the GTKsourceview.Buffer object (http://www.gnome.org/~gianmt/pygtksourceview2/class-gtksourcebuffer2.html) to actually search through the text in it.
Does anybody have a suggestion? I find the documentation not very verbose and can't really find a working example on the web.
Thanks in advance.
The reference for the C API can probably be helpful, including this chapter that I found "Searching in a GtkSourceBuffer".
As is the reference for the superclass gtk.TextBuffer
Here is the python doc, I couldn't find any up-to-date documentation so I stuffed it in my dropbox. Here is the link. What you want to look at is at is the gtk.iter_forward_search and gtk.iter_backward_search functions.