Updated Aug 27, 2009 by miles.chris
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HTTPConnection

restez provides a high level HTTP client API

Examples

Example 1 - Basic HTTP GET request:

conn = HTTPConnection()
r = conn.request("get", "http://localhost/")
print "Response Headers:"
print r['headers']
print "Response Body:"
print r['body']

Example 2 - Multiple PUT requests to resources sharing a common base URI:

conn = HTTPConnection("http://10.2.3.4/thinglibrary/")
for thing in listofthings:
    resource_path = 'things/%s' %(thing, )
    print conn.build_uri(resource_path)                     # display full URL
    r = conn.request("put", resource_path, body="test")     # send PUT request to resource
    print r['headers']['status']                            # display response status

Example 3 - PUT an authenticated (basic auth) request containing JSON data

jsonrec = json.dumps(data)
conn = HTTPConnection(username='username', password='password')
r = conn.request("put", "http://localhost/item/%s" %record_id, body=jsonrec.encode('utf-8'))
print "Response Headers:"
print r['headers']
print "Response Body:"
print r['body']