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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-10-06 11:49:34 (GMT)
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Closes #11710: create "landing pages" (/library/package.html) for those packages that have no documented content themselves, e.g. "urllib" or "http".
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+:mod:`http` --- HTTP modules
+============================
+
+``http`` is a package that collects several modules for working with the
+HyperText Transfer Protocol:
+
+* :mod:`http.client` is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level URL
+ opening use :mod:`urllib.request`
+* :mod:`http.server` contains basic HTTP server classes based on :mod:`socketserver`
+* :mod:`http.cookies` has utilities for implementing state management with cookies
+* :mod:`http.cookiejar` provides persistence of cookies