How to use Gargl and pygargl to download file from website

[siyaoli]

Hi,

I am trying to use Gargl and pygargl to download a xml file from website. After get into the website, I need to click some selections to confirm which items to be downloaded, then I click the button of "export data", it will download the xml file from the website to my computer. And there is some information "content-disposition:attachment; filename=Export090916.xml" from the response headers.But I cannot find anything in response body. Could you please give me some ideas about how to download the xml file using Gargl and pygargl?

Thanks!

[jodoglevy]

Hi,
What page are you doing this from, and what URLs are not providing any response body? Does the network tab show the response body for the same request/response?

[ghost]

The response:
content-disposition:attachment; filename=Export090916.xml

gets stripped because the file name should be in quotes like:
content-disposition:attachment; filename="Export090916.xml"

We found the reason here:
https://foocompelsyou.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/the-curious-case-of-chrome-content-disposition-and-the-comma/

Since the response is not recorded in Chrome, we had to use cURL. Firefox is not as strict as Chrome and it will show the response even though the file name is not in quotes.