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diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index 80c80cf..155c2e3 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.BufferedIOBase):
self.fp.flush()
def readable(self):
+ """Always returns True"""
return True
# End of "raw stream" methods
@@ -452,6 +453,10 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.BufferedIOBase):
return s
def readinto(self, b):
+ """Read up to len(b) bytes into bytearray b and return the number
+ of bytes read.
+ """
+
if self.fp is None:
return 0
@@ -683,6 +688,17 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.BufferedIOBase):
return self.fp.fileno()
def getheader(self, name, default=None):
+ '''Returns the value of the header matching *name*.
+
+ If there are multiple matching headers, the values are
+ combined into a single string separated by commas and spaces.
+
+ If no matching header is found, returns *default* or None if
+ the *default* is not specified.
+
+ If the headers are unknown, raises http.client.ResponseNotReady.
+
+ '''
if self.headers is None:
raise ResponseNotReady()
headers = self.headers.get_all(name) or default
@@ -705,12 +721,45 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.BufferedIOBase):
# For compatibility with old-style urllib responses.
def info(self):
+ '''Returns an instance of the class mimetools.Message containing
+ meta-information associated with the URL.
+
+ When the method is HTTP, these headers are those returned by
+ the server at the head of the retrieved HTML page (including
+ Content-Length and Content-Type).
+
+ When the method is FTP, a Content-Length header will be
+ present if (as is now usual) the server passed back a file
+ length in response to the FTP retrieval request. A
+ Content-Type header will be present if the MIME type can be
+ guessed.
+
+ When the method is local-file, returned headers will include
+ a Date representing the file’s last-modified time, a
+ Content-Length giving file size, and a Content-Type
+ containing a guess at the file’s type. See also the
+ description of the mimetools module.
+
+ '''
return self.headers
def geturl(self):
+ '''Return the real URL of the page.
+
+ In some cases, the HTTP server redirects a client to another
+ URL. The urlopen() function handles this transparently, but in
+ some cases the caller needs to know which URL the client was
+ redirected to. The geturl() method can be used to get at this
+ redirected URL.
+
+ '''
return self.url
def getcode(self):
+ '''Return the HTTP status code that was sent with the response,
+ or None if the URL is not an HTTP URL.
+
+ '''
return self.status
class HTTPConnection: