Talk:Base64 encode data: Difference between revisions

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::: But the thing is that the current task requires downloading of a file from the Web, which is conceptually separate from base-64. And downloading from the Web may be a very complicated task or it may not be supported by standard libraries in some languages, so I don't think it should be included. --[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] ([[User talk:Spoon!|talk]]) 20:36, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 
== Trouble downloading icon programmatically ==
 
In the Python on my computer, if I do
<pre>urllib2.urlopen('http://rosettacode.org/favicon.ico')</pre>
, it gives a 403 error. And if I do
<pre>print urllib.urlopen('http://rosettacode.org/favicon.ico').read()</pre>
, I get HTML that, among other things, says
<pre>
The owner of this website (rosettacode.org) has banned your access based on your browser's signature (a6d6708c9990293-ua48).
</pre>
--[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] ([[User talk:Spoon!|talk]]) 23:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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