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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>python@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Python</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
		A high-level cross-protocol url-grabber.

		Using urlgrabber, data can be fetched in three basic ways:

		urlgrab(url) copy the file to the local filesystem
		urlopen(url) open the remote file and return a file object (like urllib2.urlopen)
		urlread(url) return the contents of the file as a string


		When using these functions (or methods), urlgrabber supports the following
		features:

		* identical behavior for http://, ftp://, and file:// urls
		* http keepalive - faster downloads of many files by using only a single
		connection
		* byte ranges - fetch only a portion of the file
		* reget - for a urlgrab, resume a partial download
		* progress meters - the ability to report download progress automatically,
		even when using urlopen!
		* throttling - restrict bandwidth usage
		* retries - automatically retry a download if it fails. The number of retries
		and failure types are configurable.
		* authenticated server access for http and ftp
		* proxy support - support for authenticated http and ftp proxies
		* mirror groups - treat a list of mirrors as a single source, automatically
		switching mirrors if there is a failure.
	</longdescription>
	<stabilize-allarches/>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="pypi">urlgrabber</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>