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## 11.4.1 HTTP Objects

`HTTP` instances have the following methods:

`set_debuglevel` (level)
  Set the debugging level (the amount of debugging output printed). The default debug level is `0`, meaning no debugging output is printed.

`connect` (host[, port])
  Connect to the server given by host and port. See the intro for the default port. This should be called directly only if the instance was instantiated without passing a host.

`send` (data)
  Send data to the server. This should be used directly only after the `endheaders()` method has been called and before `getreply()` has been called.

`putrequest` (request, selector)
  This should be the first call after the connection to the server has been made. It sends a line to the server consisting of the request string, the selector string, and the HTTP version (`HTTP/1.0`).

`putheader` (header, argument[, ...])
  Send an RFC 822 style header to the server. It sends a line to the server consisting of the header, a colon and a space, and the first argument. If more arguments are given, continuation lines are sent, each consisting of a tab and an argument.

`endheaders` ()
  Send a blank line to the server, signalling the end of the headers.

`getreply` ()
  Complete the request by shutting down the sending end of the socket, read the reply from the server, and return a triple `(replycode, message, headers)`. Here, replycode is the integer reply code from the request (e.g., `200` if the request was handled properly); message is the message string corresponding to the reply code; and headers is an instance of the class `mimetools.Message` containing the headers received from the server. See the description of the `mimetools` module.

`getfile` ()
  Return a file object from which the data returned by the server can be read, using the `read()`, `readline()` or `readlines()` methods.