10.3.2. Example

>>> import httplib

>>> h = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl')

>>> h.putrequest('GET', '/index.html')

>>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')

>>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')

>>> h.endheaders()

>>> errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()

>>> print errcode # Should be 200

>>> f = h.getfile()

>>> data f.read() # Get the raw HTML

>>> f.close()

>>>