http

http defines an HTTP client implementation

Functions

delete(url,params={},headers={},body="",form_body={},json_body={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP DELETE request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
body	string	optional. raw string body to provide to the request
form_body	dict	optional. dict of values that will be encoded as form data
json_body	any	optional. json data to supply as a request. handy for working with JSON-API's
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

get(url,params={},headers={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP GET request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

options(url,params={},headers={},body="",form_body={},json_body={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP OPTIONS request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
body	string	optional. raw string body to provide to the request
form_body	dict	optional. dict of values that will be encoded as form data
json_body	any	optional. json data to supply as a request. handy for working with JSON-API's
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

patch(url,params={},headers={},body="",form_body={},json_body={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP PATCH request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
body	string	optional. raw string body to provide to the request
form_body	dict	optional. dict of values that will be encoded as form data
json_body	any	optional. json data to supply as a request. handy for working with JSON-API's
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

post(url,params={},headers={},body="",form_body={},json_body={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP POST request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
body	string	optional. raw string body to provide to the request
form_body	dict	optional. dict of values that will be encoded as form data
json_body	any	optional. json data to supply as a request. handy for working with JSON-API's
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

put(url,params={},headers={},body="",form_body={},json_body={},auth=()) response

perform an HTTP PUT request, returning a response

parameters:

name	type	description
url	string	url to request
headers	dict	optional. dictionary of headers to add to request
body	string	optional. raw string body to provide to the request
form_body	dict	optional. dict of values that will be encoded as form data
json_body	any	optional. json data to supply as a request. handy for working with JSON-API's
auth	tuple	optional. (username,password) tuple for http basic authorization

Types

response

the result of performing a http request

Fields

name	type	description
url	string	the url that was ultimately requested (may change after redirects)
status_code	int	response status code (for example: 200 == OK)
headers	dict	dictionary of response headers
encoding	string	transfer encoding. example: "octet-stream" or "application/json"

Methods

body() string

output response body as a string

json()

attempt to parse resonse body as json, returning a JSON-decoded result