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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition
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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition

by Steven F. Lott
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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The HTTP request-response model

The HTTP protocol is nearly stateless: a user agent (or browser) makes a request and the server provides a response. For services that don't involve cookies, a client application can take a functional view of the protocol. We can build a client using the http.client or urllib library. An HTTP user agent essentially executes something similar to the following:

import urllib.request
def urllib_demo(url):    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:        print(response.read())urllib_demo("http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com")

A program like wget or curl does this kind of processing using a URL supplied as a command-line argument. A browser does this in response to the user pointing and clicking; the URL is ...

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