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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2009-01-03 21:18:54 (GMT)
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
HOWTO, available at `urllib2 - Le Manuel manquant
<http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2_francais.shtml>`_.
-
+
Introduction
============
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Introduction
You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources
with Python:
-
+
* `Basic Authentication <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`_
-
+
A tutorial on *Basic Authentication*, with examples in Python.
**urllib.request** is a `Python <http://www.python.org>`_ module for fetching URLs
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ argument. The encoding is done using a function from the :mod:`urllib.parse`
library. ::
import urllib.parse
- import urllib.request
+ import urllib.request
url = 'http://www.someserver.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi'
values = {'name' : 'Michael Foord',
@@ -161,15 +161,15 @@ request as above, but identifies itself as a version of Internet
Explorer [#]_. ::
import urllib.parse
- import urllib.request
-
+ import urllib.request
+
url = 'http://www.someserver.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi'
- user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
+ user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
values = {'name' : 'Michael Foord',
'location' : 'Northampton',
'language' : 'Python' }
headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
-
+
data = urllib.parse.urlencode(values)
req = urllib.request.Request(url, data, headers)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Handling Exceptions
===================
*urlopen* raises :exc:`URLError` when it cannot handle a response (though as usual
-with Python APIs, builtin exceptions such as
+with Python APIs, builtin exceptions such as
:exc:`ValueError`, :exc:`TypeError` etc. may also
be raised).
@@ -311,18 +311,18 @@ page returned. This means that as well as the code attribute, it also has read,
geturl, and info, methods as returned by the ``urllib.response`` module::
>>> req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.python.org/fish.html')
- >>> try:
+ >>> try:
>>> urllib.request.urlopen(req)
>>> except urllib.error.URLError, e:
>>> print(e.code)
>>> print(e.read())
- >>>
+ >>>
404
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
+ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
- <?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html.css"
+ <?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html.css"
type="text/css"?>
- <html><head><title>Error 404: File Not Found</title>
+ <html><head><title>Error 404: File Not Found</title>
...... etc...
Wrapping it Up
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Number 2
print('Error code: ', e.code)
else:
# everything is fine
-
+
info and geturl
===============
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ error code) requesting authentication. This specifies the authentication scheme
and a 'realm'. The header looks like : ``Www-authenticate: SCHEME
realm="REALM"``.
-e.g. ::
+e.g. ::
Www-authenticate: Basic realm="cPanel Users"
@@ -472,24 +472,24 @@ The top-level URL is the first URL that requires authentication. URLs "deeper"
than the URL you pass to .add_password() will also match. ::
# create a password manager
- password_mgr = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
+ password_mgr = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
# Add the username and password.
# If we knew the realm, we could use it instead of ``None``.
top_level_url = "http://example.com/foo/"
password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password)
- handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
+ handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
# create "opener" (OpenerDirector instance)
- opener = urllib.request.build_opener(handler)
+ opener = urllib.request.build_opener(handler)
# use the opener to fetch a URL
- opener.open(a_url)
+ opener.open(a_url)
# Install the opener.
# Now all calls to urllib.request.urlopen use our opener.
- urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
+ urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
.. note::
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ However, you can set the default timeout globally for all sockets using ::
# timeout in seconds
timeout = 10
- socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
+ socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
# this call to urllib.request.urlopen now uses the default timeout
# we have set in the socket module
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ Footnotes
This document was reviewed and revised by John Lee.
.. [#] For an introduction to the CGI protocol see
- `Writing Web Applications in Python <http://www.pyzine.com/Issue008/Section_Articles/article_CGIOne.html>`_.
+ `Writing Web Applications in Python <http://www.pyzine.com/Issue008/Section_Articles/article_CGIOne.html>`_.
.. [#] Like Google for example. The *proper* way to use google from a program
is to use `PyGoogle <http://pygoogle.sourceforge.net>`_ of course. See
`Voidspace Google <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#google>`_
@@ -579,6 +579,6 @@ This document was reviewed and revised by John Lee.
is set to use the proxy, which urllib picks up on. In order to test
scripts with a localhost server, I have to prevent urllib from using
the proxy.
-.. [#] urllib opener for SSL proxy (CONNECT method): `ASPN Cookbook Recipe
+.. [#] urllib opener for SSL proxy (CONNECT method): `ASPN Cookbook Recipe
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/456195>`_.
-
+