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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-03-12 05:54:02 (GMT)
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\section{Standard Module \sectcode{httplib}}
\label{module-httplib}
\stmodindex{httplib}
-\index{HTTP}
+\indexii{HTTP}{protocol}
-\setindexsubitem{(in module httplib)}
This module defines a class which implements the client side of the
HTTP protocol. It is normally not used directly --- the module
-\code{urllib} uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP.
-\refstmodindex{urllib}
+\module{urllib}\refstmodindex{urllib} uses it to handle URLs that use
+HTTP.
-The module defines one class, \code{HTTP}. An \code{HTTP} instance
+The module defines one class, \class{HTTP}. An \class{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 \code{host:port}, else the default HTTP port (80) is used.
-If no host is passed, no connection is made, and the \code{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:
+the form \code{\var{host}:\var{port}}, else the default HTTP port (80)
+is used. If no host is passed, no connection is made, and the
+\method{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:
\begin{verbatim}
>>> h1 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl')
>>> h2 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl:80')
>>> h3 = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl', 80)
\end{verbatim}
-%
-Once an \code{HTTP} instance has been connected to an HTTP server, it
+
+Once an \class{HTTP} instance has been connected to an HTTP server, it
should be used as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
-\item[1.] Make exactly one call to the \code{putrequest()} method.
+\item[1.] Make exactly one call to the \method{putrequest()} method.
-\item[2.] Make zero or more calls to the \code{putheader()} method.
+\item[2.] Make zero or more calls to the \method{putheader()} method.
-\item[3.] Call the \code{endheaders()} method (this can be omitted if
+\item[3.] Call the \method{endheaders()} method (this can be omitted if
step 4 makes no calls).
-\item[4.] Optional calls to the \code{send()} method.
+\item[4.] Optional calls to the \method{send()} method.
-\item[5.] Call the \code{getreply()} method.
+\item[5.] Call the \method{getreply()} method.
-\item[6.] Call the \code{getfile()} method and read the data off the
+\item[6.] Call the \method{getfile()} method and read the data off the
file object that it returns.
\end{enumerate}
\subsection{HTTP Objects}
-\code{HTTP} instances have the following methods:
+\class{HTTP} instances have the following methods:
\setindexsubitem{(HTTP method)}
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ The default debug level is \code{0}, meaning no debugging output is
printed.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{connect}{host\optional{\, port}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{connect}{host\optional{, port}}
Connect to the server given by \var{host} and \var{port}. See the
intro for the default port. This should be called directly only if
the instance was instantiated without passing a host.
@@ -67,18 +66,18 @@ the instance was instantiated without passing a host.
\begin{funcdesc}{send}{data}
Send data to the server. This should be used directly only after the
-\code{endheaders()} method has been called and before
-\code{getreply()} has been called.
+\method{endheaders()} method has been called and before
+\method{getreply()} has been called.
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{putrequest}{request\, selector}
+\begin{funcdesc}{putrequest}{request, selector}
This should be the first call after the connection to the server has
been made. It sends a line to the server consisting of the
\var{request} string, the \var{selector} string, and the HTTP version
(\code{HTTP/1.0}).
\end{funcdesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{putheader}{header\, argument\optional{\, ...}}
+\begin{funcdesc}{putheader}{header, argument\optional{, ...}}
Send an \rfc{822} style header to the server. It sends a line to the
server consisting of the header, a colon and a space, and the first
argument. If more arguments are given, continuation lines are sent,
@@ -91,20 +90,20 @@ Send a blank line to the server, signalling the end of the headers.
\begin{funcdesc}{getreply}{}
Complete the request by shutting down the sending end of the socket,
-read the reply from the server, and return a triple (\var{replycode},
-\var{message}, \var{headers}). Here \var{replycode} is the integer
-reply code from the request (e.g.\ \code{200} if the request was
-handled properly); \var{message} is the message string corresponding
-to the reply code; and \var{headers} is an instance of the class
-\code{mimetools.Message} containing the headers received from the server.
-See the description of the \code{mimetools} module.
-\refstmodindex{mimetools}
+read the reply from the server, and return a triple
+\code{(\var{replycode}, \var{message}, \var{headers})}. Here,
+\var{replycode} is the integer reply code from the request (e.g.\
+\code{200} if the request was handled properly); \var{message} is the
+message string corresponding to the reply code; and \var{headers} is
+an instance of the class \class{mimetools.Message} containing the
+headers received from the server. See the description of the
+\module{mimetools}\refstmodindex{mimetools} module.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{getfile}{}
Return a file object from which the data returned by the server can be
-read, using the \code{read()}, \code{readline()} or \code{readlines()}
-methods.
+read, using the \method{read()}, \method{readline()} or
+\method{readlines()} methods.
\end{funcdesc}
\subsection{Example}