Question

When I run this code on my computer with the help of “Google App Engine SDK”, it displays (in my browser) the HTML code of the Google home page:

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
url = "http://www.google.com/"
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
print result.content 

How can I make it display the page itself? I mean I want to see that page in my browser the way it would normally be seen by any user of the internet.

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Update 1:

I see I have received a few questions that look a bit complicated to me, although I definitely remember I was able to do it, and it was very simple, except i don’t remember what exactly i changed then in this code.

Perhaps, I didn’t give You all enough details on how I run this code and where I found it. So, let me tell You what I did. I only installed Python 2.5 on my computer and then downloaded “Google App Engine SDK” and installed it, too. Following the instructions on “GAE” page (http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/helloworld.html) I created a directory and named it “My_test”, then I created a “my_test.py” in it containing that small piece of the code that I mentioned in my question.

Then, continuing to follow on the said instructions, I created an “app.yaml” file in it, in which my “my_test.py” file was mentioned. After that in “Google App Engine Launcher” I found “My_test” directory and clicked on Run button, and then on Browse. Then, having visited this URL http://localhost:8080/ in my web browser, I saw the results.

I definitely remember I was able to display any page in my browser in this way, and it was very simple, except I don’t remember what exactly I changed in the code (it was a slight change). Now, all I can see is a raw HTML code of a page, but not a page itself.

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Update 2:

(this update is my response to wescpy)

Hello, wescpy!!! I’ve tried Your updated code and something didn’t work well there. Perhaps, it’s because I am not using a certain framework that I am supposed to use for this code. Please, take a look at this screen shot (I guess You’ll need to right-click this image to see it in better resolution):

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Answer 1

Is not that easy, you have to parse content and adjust relative to absolute paths for images and javascripts.
Anyway, give it a try adding the correct Content-Type:

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch
url = "http://www.google.com/"
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
print 'Content-Type: text/html'
print ''
print result.content