httplib
This module defines a class which implements the client side of the
HTTP protocol. It is normally not used directly -- the module
urllib uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP.
The module defines one class, HTTP. An HTTP instance
represents one transaction with an HTTP server. It should be
instantiated passing it a host and optional port number. If no port
number is passed, the port is extracted from the host string if it has
the form host:port, else the default HTTP port (80) is used.
If no host is passed, no connection is made, and the connect
method should be used to connect to a server. For example, the
following calls all create instances that connect to the server at the
same host and port:
>>> h1 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl')
>>> h2 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl:80')
>>> h3 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl', 80)
Once an HTTP instance has been connected to an HTTP server, it
should be used as follows:
putrequest() method.
putheader() method.
endheaders() method (this can be omitted if
step 4 makes no calls).
send() method.
getreply() method.
getfile() method and read the data off the
file object that it returns.