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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-04-04 07:15:02 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1998-04-04 07:15:02 (GMT)
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Remove obsolete \setindexsubitem macros.
Massive migration to methoddesc and memberdesc. Logical markup as needed. A sprinkling of index entries for flavor.
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index d578ae2..55ec9b98 100644
--- a/Doc/libhttplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/libhttplib.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\section{Standard Module \sectcode{httplib}}
+\section{Standard Module \module{httplib}}
\label{module-httplib}
\stmodindex{httplib}
\indexii{HTTP}{protocol}
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ HTTP protocol. It is normally not used directly --- the module
\module{urllib}\refstmodindex{urllib} uses it to handle URLs that use
HTTP.
-The module defines one class, \class{HTTP}. An \class{HTTP} instance
+The module defines one class, \class{HTTP}:
+
+\begin{classdesc}{HTTP}{\optional{host\optional{, port}}}
+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
@@ -45,50 +48,50 @@ step 4 makes no calls).
file object that it returns.
\end{enumerate}
+\end{classdesc}
\subsection{HTTP Objects}
\class{HTTP} instances have the following methods:
-\setindexsubitem{(HTTP method)}
-\begin{funcdesc}{set_debuglevel}{level}
+\begin{methoddesc}{set_debuglevel}{level}
Set the debugging level (the amount of debugging output printed).
The default debug level is \code{0}, meaning no debugging output is
printed.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{connect}{host\optional{, port}}
+\begin{methoddesc}{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.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{send}{data}
+\begin{methoddesc}{send}{data}
Send data to the server. This should be used directly only after the
\method{endheaders()} method has been called and before
\method{getreply()} has been called.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{putrequest}{request, selector}
+\begin{methoddesc}{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}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{putheader}{header, argument\optional{, ...}}
+\begin{methoddesc}{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,
each consisting of a tab and an argument.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{endheaders}{}
+\begin{methoddesc}{endheaders}{}
Send a blank line to the server, signalling the end of the headers.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{getreply}{}
+\begin{methoddesc}{getreply}{}
Complete the request by shutting down the sending end of the socket,
read the reply from the server, and return a triple
\code{(\var{replycode}, \var{message}, \var{headers})}. Here,
@@ -98,13 +101,13 @@ 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}
+\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{funcdesc}{getfile}{}
+\begin{methoddesc}{getfile}{}
Return a file object from which the data returned by the server can be
read, using the \method{read()}, \method{readline()} or
\method{readlines()} methods.
-\end{funcdesc}
+\end{methoddesc}
\subsection{Example}
\nodename{HTTP Example}
@@ -123,5 +126,4 @@ Here is an example session:
>>> f = h.getfile()
>>> data = f.read() # Get the raw HTML
>>> f.close()
->>>
\end{verbatim}