HTTP1

HTTP1 is a Python wrapper around httplib to perform HTTP requests in a single call. For instance, to get PyPI index of packages, you might write:

import http1

print http1.request('http://pypi.python.org/simple/').body

request() method

This method performs an HTTP request. The signature of the request method is the following:

request(url, params={}, method='GET', body=None, headers={},
 content_type=None, content_length=True, username=None,
 password=None, capitalize_headers=True)

The parameters are the following:

 url: the URL call, including protocol and parameters (such as 'http://www.google.com?foo=1&bar=2').
 params: URL parameters as a map, so that {'foo': 1, 'bar': 2} will result in an URL ending with '?foo=1&bar=2'.
 method: the HTTP method (such as 'GET' or 'POST'). Defaults to 'GET'.
 body: the body of the request as a string. Defaults to None.
 headers: request headers as a dictionnary. Defaults to '{}'.
 content_type: the content type header of the request. Defauls to None.
 content_length: tells if we should add content length headers to the request. Defaults to true.
 username: username while performing basic authentication, must be set with password.
 password: password while performing basic authentication, must be set with username.
 capitalize_headers: tells if headers should be capitalized (so that their names are all like 'Content-Type' for instance).

This method returns the response as a Response object described hereafter.

NOTE: to call HTTPS URLs, Python must have been built with SSL support.

Response object

This object encapsulates status code (200, 404, as an integer), message (such as 'OK', 'Not Found', as a string), headers (as a dictionnary), and body (as a string).

What is new in this release:

• More documentation fixes.

Requirements:

• Python