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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-09-25 16:32:02 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-09-25 16:32:02 (GMT)
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HTTP protocol client}
\declaremodule{standard}{httplib}
-\modulesynopsis{HTTP protocol client (requires sockets).}
+\modulesynopsis{HTTP and HTTPS protocol client (requires sockets).}
\indexii{HTTP}{protocol}
-This module defines a class which implements the client side of the
-HTTP protocol. It is normally not used directly --- the module
-\refmodule{urllib}\refstmodindex{urllib} uses it to handle URLs that
-use HTTP.
+This module defines classes which implement the client side of the
+HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly --- the
+module \refmodule{urllib}\refstmodindex{urllib} uses it to handle URLs
+that use HTTP and HTTPS. \strong{Note:} HTTPS support is only
+available if the \refmodule{socket} module was compiled with SSL
+support.
The module defines one class, \class{HTTP}:
@@ -111,6 +113,7 @@ read, using the \method{read()}, \method{readline()} or
\method{readlines()} methods.
\end{methoddesc}
+
\subsection{Examples \label{httplib-examples}}
Here is an example session that uses the \samp{GET} method: