Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

The http.client module

We are going to see two http requests: GET and POST. We are also going to make an http connection.

First, we are going explore an example of making an http connection. For that, create a make_connection.py script and write the following content in it:

import http.clientcon_obj = http.client.HTTPConnection('Enter_URL_name', 80, timeout=20)print(con_obj)

Run the script and you will get the output as follows:

student@ubuntu:~/work$ python3 make_connection.py<http.client.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f2c365dd898>

In the preceding example, we made a connection with the URL mentioned on port 80 for a specific timeout.

Now we will see the http GET request method; using this GET request method, we will see an example where we ...