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#!/usr/bin/python

import httplib, time
from urlparse import urlparse

loc = "http://noslor/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso"
file = open('output', 'w')

def main():
    global loc, file
    connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(urlparse(loc)[1])
    begin, size = 0, 10485700
    place = begin
    end = begin + size
    connection.request('GET', urlparse(loc)[2])
    response = connection.getresponse()
    while True:
        data = response.read(4096)
        if data == '':
            break
        file.write(data)
        if place > end:
            break
    connection.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start_t = time.time()
    main()
    end_t = time.time()
    print end_t - start_t