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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition
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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

by José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
March 2019
Beginner
490 pages
12h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Programming for the Web with HTTP

In the chapter, you will learn how to use Python as an HTTP client to make requests and retrieve web resources. You will be encouraged to try a series of example requests. We will compare urllib and the third-party requests library and show you the differences when working with forms and cookies. The third-party Requests package is a very popular alternative to urllib. It has an elegant interface and a powerful feature set, and it is a great tool for streamlining HTTP workflows. We also cover HTTP authentication mechanisms and how we can manage them with the Requests module.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the urllib package to query a REST API
  • Understanding the Requests ...
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