HTTP¶

Snippets for http.

simple http web server¶

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]

http get¶

import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/").read()

http head ¶

>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")
>>> conn.request("HEAD", "/index.html")
>>> res = conn.getresponse()
>>> print res.status, res.reason
200 OK

http post¶

>>> import httplib, urllib
>>> params = urllib.urlencode({'key': 'value'})
>>> headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
...            "Accept": "text/plain"}
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.example.com")
>>> conn.request("POST", "", params, headers)
>>> response = conn.getresponse()
>>> print response.status, response.reason
200 OK
>>> conn.close()

http put ¶

import urllib2
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
request = urllib2.Request('http://example.org', data='your_put_data')
request.add_header('Content-Type', 'your/contenttype')
request.get_method = lambda: 'PUT'
url = opener.open(request)