wget in 9 lines of Python for running in hostile environments (aka. how to fetch HTTPS stuff on Synology DS214play)

wget

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2, sys
urlstr = sys.argv[1]
fname = urlstr.split('/')[-1]
response = urllib2.urlopen(urlstr)
f = open(fname, "w")
f.write(response.read())
f.close()
print "written " + fname

Synology DS214play comes with wget without https:// support. While working on https://github.com/wkoszek/synology I wanted to actually fetch it and test it from GitHub releases, but GitHub now redirects to HTTPS always. So I wrote this simple thing for letting me fetch the release and do further bootstrapping/testing.