Python httplib Module Usage examples

Httplib module is an underlying basic module, which realizes less function and less use under normal circumstances. Recommended Urllib, URLLIB2, Httplib2.

Httpconnection Object

Class Httplib. Httpconnection (host[, port[, strict[, timeout[, Source_address]])

Create a Httpconnection object

Httpconnection.request (method, url[, body[, headers])

Send Request

Httpconnection.getresponse ()

Get a response

HttpResponse Object

Httpresponse.read ([Amt])
Reads and returns the response body, or up to the next Amt bytes.

Httpresponse.getheader (name[, default])

Get the specified header information

Httpresponse.getheaders ()

Get a list of (header, value) tuples

Httpresponse.fileno ()

Get the underlying socket file descriptor

Httpresponse.msg

Get Header Content

Httpresponse.version

Get the header HTTP version

Httpresponse.status

Get the Return status code

Httpresponse.reason

Get return Instructions

Instance

The code is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/python
Import Httplib

conn = Httplib. Httpconnection ("www.bitsCN.com")
Conn.request ("GET", "/")
R1 = Conn.getresponse ()

Print R1.status, R1.reason
print '-' * 40

headers = R1.getheaders ()
For h in headers:
Print h
print '-' * 40

Print R1.msg

Output:

The code is as follows:

OK
----------------------------------------
(' Content-length ', ' 106883 ')
(' accept-ranges ', ' bytes ')
(' Vary ', ' accept-encoding, accept-encoding ')
(' keep-alive ', ' timeout=20 ')
(' Server ', ' ngx_openresty ')
(' last-modified ', ' Fri, Apr 09:30:10 GMT ')
(' Connection ', ' keep-alive ')
(' ETag ', ' ' 55279822-1a183 ')
(' Date ', ' Fri, Apr 09:48:15 GMT ')
(' Content-type ', ' text/html; Charset=utf-8 ')
----------------------------------------
Server:ngx_openresty
Date:fri, APR 09:48:15 GMT
content-type:text/html; Charset=utf-8
content-length:106883
Connection:keep-alive
Keep-alive:timeout=20
Vary:accept-encoding
Last-modified:fri, APR 09:30:10 GMT
Vary:accept-encoding
ETag: "55279822-1a183"
Accept-ranges:bytes

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