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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HTTP Request/Response from a file and back
What is the best way to parse HTTP request/response from a file to some kind of standard python objects and later dump it to a file?
What are the standard HTTP Request/Response objects in python. I need some kind of wrapper as output, just like…
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Get response encoding using httplib/http.client
How can I get the incoming response's encoding using httplib/http.client?
I can see as part of Content-Type using getheaders(), but I would guess it is bad practise to parse that since it might be in a few different formats, and you are supposed to…
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HTTPS POST request Python, returning .csv
I want to make a post request to a HTTPS-site that should respond with a .csv file. I have this Python code:
try:
#conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host="www.site.com", port=443)
=> Gives an BadStatusLine: ' ' error
conn =…
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Using heroku with python results in http:500 error
I have a python app which pulls xml data through http. I want to run this app on Heroku. The app runs fine on Heroku if I just return "hello world" without trying to pull the xml. When I run this app locally (either by using the 'foreman' command,…
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SSL EOF occurred in violation of protocol with python httplib
The current questions regarding this topic didn't solve my problem and neither has Google.
relevant server code:
class ReuseHTTPServer(BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
def __init__(self, address, handler, queue=None):
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httplib and HTTPs proxies
Is there a way to tunnel HTTPs requests made with python's httplib through Fiddler's proxy, without turning Fiddler into a reverse proxy?
I tried using this example (from here):
import httplib
c =…
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python unhashable type - posting xml data
First, I'm not a python programmer. I'm an old C dog that's learned new Java and PHP tricks, but python looks like a pretty cool language.
I'm getting an error that I can't quite follow. The error follows the code below.
import httplib, urllib
url…
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httplib.HTTPSConnection timeout when connecting to Amazon Web Services
I've followed all the instructions for installing and enabling django-storages and boto in my app to upload files to S3. (As this application is intended for deployment on Heroku, I'm using virtualenv to manage dependencies.)
For local development…
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Python error. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong
I'm so lost as to what I'm doing wrong... I've searched the net for a few hours now, tried to reformat my code a bunch, and now I just feel stuck.
This is my code:
import httplib
import json
urlBase = 'amoeba.im'
token = False
username =…
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ApplicationError2 and ApplicationError5 when communicating with external api from AppEngine
I have built an application on google app engine, in python27 to connect with another services API and in general everything works smoothly. Every now and then I get one of the following two errors
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gai error at /home [Errno -2] Name or service not known
per the example in the httplib docs:
>>> import httplib, urllib
>>> params = urllib.urlencode({'@number': 12524, '@type': 'issue', '@action': 'show'})
>>> headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
... "Accept":…
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Persistent HTTP connections with httplib
I'm trying to write an application where I send an initial HTTP post message to server and leave the connection open. The application then sits around until the server sends data back. Once the server sends data back I want to read it and write it…
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Sending mutlitple requests of httplib, raising traceback exceptions
Here is the code:
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1:8000")
conn.request("POST", "/api/job/", some_params, headers)
conn.close()
no problem with sending request to server
but if i use loop for example:
for i in range(n):
conn =…
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How to fix "hostname mismatch" error when connecting using http.client.HTTPSConnection?
I have a Python program which makes requests using httplib/http.client. It works beautifully in Python 2.7. Both Python2 and Python3 work 100% of the time with http. However, the program fails for some of our named servers using https from…
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What is the difference between Python's httplib and urllib2?
Possible Duplicate:
Python urllib vs httplib?
I am just curious when I would want to use httplib over urllib2 and vice versa.
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