Keywords: lib

## 11.4.2 Examples

Here is an example session that uses the "`GET`" method:

      >>> import httplib
      >>> h = httplib.HTTP('www.cwi.nl')
      >>> h.putrequest('GET', '/index.html')
      >>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')
      >>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
      >>> h.endheaders()
      >>> errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()
      >>> print errcode # Should be 200
      >>> f = h.getfile()
      >>> data = f.read() # Get the raw HTML
      >>> f.close()

Here is an example session that shows how to "`POST`" requests:

      >>> import httplib, urllib
      >>> params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
      >>> h = httplib.HTTP("www.musi-cal.com:80")
      >>> h.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/query")
      >>> h.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(params))
      >>> h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
      >>> h.putheader('Host', 'www.musi-cal.com')
      >>> h.endheaders()
      >>> h.send(paramstring)
      >>> reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
      >>> print errcode # should be 200
      >>> data = h.getfile().read() # get the raw HTML