Python - http — HTTP modules

http — HTTP modules

http is a package that collects several modules for working with the HyperText Transfer Protocol:

• http.client is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level URL opening use urllib.request
• http.server contains basic HTTP server classes based on socketserver
• http.cookies has utilities for implementing state management with cookies
• http.cookiejar provides persistence of cookies

http.client — HTTP protocol client

This module defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly — the module urllib.request uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS.

class http.client.HTTPConnection(host, port=None, [timeout, ]source_address=None, blocksize=8192)

class http.client.HTTPSConnection(host, port=None, key_file=None, cert_file=None, [timeout, ]source_address=None, *, context=None, check_hostname=None, blocksize=8192)

For example, the following calls all create instances that connect to the server at the same host and port:

>>>
>>> h1 = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org')
>>> h2 = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org:80')
>>> h3 = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org', 80)
>>> h4 = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org', 80, timeout=10)


>>> import http.client
>>> conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("localhost", 8080)
>>> conn.set_tunnel("www.python.org")
>>> conn.request("HEAD","/index.html")

http.server — HTTP servers

This module defines classes for implementing HTTP servers (Web servers).
http.server is not recommended for production. It only implements basic security checks.

def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    server_address = ('', 8000)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    httpd.serve_forever()

import socketserver

PORT = 8000

Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
    print("serving at port", PORT)
    httpd.serve_forever()