A module from Python standard lib that defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols.
Official Python documentation at http://docs.python.org/2/library/httplib.html
Questions tagged [httplib]
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POST method of httplib python gives an error "socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known"
The following code throws an error "socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known".
import httplib, urllib
attrs = urllib.urlencode({"username":"admin", "password":"admin"})
conn =…
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Python urllib2 cannot open localhost on alternate port (not 80)? Error 10013
Here is my server.py:
import BaseHTTPServer
import SocketServer
class TestRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
self.wfile.write("hello world at %s" % __file__)
server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('',…
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httplib binary data and UnicodeDecodeError in python 2.7
I just discovered that starting with Python 2.7, the httplib doesn't work anymore with binary data, breaking modules that where sending binary data over HTTP, one example being PyAMF
Python bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue11898
PyAMF bug:…
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Reading CONNECT headers
I'm using a proxy service (proxymesh) that puts useful information into the headers sent in response to a CONNECT request. For whatever reason, Python's httplib doesn't parse them:
> CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.com:443
>
<…
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How to send Multipart/related requests in Python to SOAP server?
I have to send a file to a SOAP server via a multipart/related HTTP POST.
I have built the message from scratch like this:
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
from email.encoders import encode_7or8bit
from email.mime.multipart import…
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python httplib: getting the outgoing request headers
I do:
con = HTTPConnection(SERVER_NAME)
con.request('GET', PATH, HEADERS)
resp = con.getresponse()
For debugging reasons, I want to see the request I used (it's fields, path, method,..). I would expect there to be some sort of con.getRequest() or…
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wants to get http request from python requests module
I wants to use python requests module to prepare http request and use http socket to send the request, So I can detect the connection problem.
Can anyone suggest how should I retrieve raw request from python requests module(without sending…
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Python - Using httplib to PUT JSON data
I am trying to perform a simple PUT with JSON data in the tastypie-Django Python application. But I'm seeing a 401 response error when I call it through code, but no error when I execute a cURL command from the terminal. I have the…
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Why doesn't this `try` statement catch this `CannotSendRequest` error? python
try:
serial_tx = bcl.sendrawtransaction(tx)
except:
raise
''other stuff''
The tx in the parenthesis is a raw transaction that is about to be broadcast to the network.
This was the result -
Internal Server Error:…
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multiple requests in a single connection?
Is it possible to put multiple requests without breaking the connection using python httplib?.
Like, can I upload a big file to the server in parts but in a single socket connection.
I looked for answers. But nothing seemed so clear and…
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In Python, are there any libraries that mock out responses for httplib?
I'm currently using python_flickr_api to upload photos for my app: it uses httplib to perform a multipart POST request.
Problem: I want to verify that the upload really is issued in an integration test by intercepting the POST request and creating a…
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python, send many HTTP requests through one network connection
I'm working on a python 2.7 script that must check in a Fedora Commons repository for the existence of some data in 20'000 objects.
Basically this means sending 20'000 HTTP requests to 20'000 different urls on the repository (that runs on a Tomcat…
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POST binary data using httplib cause Unicode exceptions
When i try to send an image with urllib2 the UnicodeDecodeError exception is occured.
HTTP Post body:
f = open(imagepath, "rb")
binary = f.read()
mimetype, devnull = mimetypes.guess_type(urllib.pathname2url(imagepath))
body = """Content-Length:…
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Python : Problems getting past the login page of an .aspx site
Problem:
I have searched several websites/blogs/etc to find a solution but did not get to what I was looking for. The problem in short, is that I would like to scrape a site - but to get to that site - I have to get past the login page.
What I…
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urllib2 HTTPPasswordMgr not working - Credentials not sent error
The following python curl call has the following successful results:
>>> import subprocess
>>> args = [
'curl',
'-H', 'X-Requested-With: Demo',
'https://username:password@qualysapi.qualys.com/qps/rest/3.0/count/was/webapp' ]…
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