How to replace the windows url in web url to web url and need too download pdf files in python

Question:

Hi engineers & developers,
I am really worried and stuck in the python program to replace the windows based URL to a web URL. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any solution for this. I do tried for hours to solve this problem but I couldn’t. if any one help me is a great service guys. Ok let me tell the problem below.

This is the URL

http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:WindowsTEMP243dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf

when I basically run the python below code

url = """http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:WindowsTEMP243dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf"""
print(url)

The output will be like this

http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:WindowsTEMP£dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf

please check it has replaced some values from the original URL. In this parameter reportFile=

I want the URL to be replaced like this

http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:/Windows/TEMP/243dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf

I tried and I failed

I wanted a common routine for downloading purpose of any file using URL in the python snippet. Because I am new to python. Please help me. Thanks in advance

Asked By: CyberRange

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Answers:

The reason this is happening is python is automatically interpreting the backslash followed by numbers as an escape sequence. The solution is to make the string a raw string by adding the r prefix and replacing the with /.

url = r"""http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:WindowsTEMP243dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf""".replace('\', '/')
print(url)

will output:

http://203.215.33.115/CompanyVerification/Pages/ViewPDF.aspx?reportFile=C:/Windows/TEMP/243dbd82-9e93-42bb-a5ec-8fa032e93fdf.pdf
Answered By: Umbral Reaper