Python in a Nutshell

Name

request

Synopsis

                        h.request(command,URL,data=None,headers={})

Sends a request to the HTTP server. command is an HTTP command string, such as 'GET' or 'POST‘. URL is an HTTP selector (i.e., a URL string without the scheme and location components—just the path component, possibly followed by query and/or fragment components). data, if not None, is a string sent as the body of the request, normally meaningful only for such commands as 'POST' and 'PUT‘. request computes and sends the Content-Length header to describe the length of data. To send other headers, pass them as part of dictionary argument headers, with the header name as the key and the header contents as the corresponding value.

Module httplib also supplies class HTTPSConnection, used in exactly the same way as class HTTPConnection but supporting connections that use protocol https rather than protocol http.