AbstractHTTPHandler Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for AbstractHTTPHandler:

Public Member Functions
def	do_open
Public Member Functions inherited from BaseHandler
def	add_parent
def	close

Additional Inherited Members
Data Fields inherited from BaseHandler
	parent

Detailed Description

Definition at line 743 of file urllib2.py.

Member Function Documentation

def do_open	(		self,
			http_class,
			req
	)

Definition at line 745 of file urllib2.py.

    def do_open(self, http_class, req):
        host = req.get_host()
        if not host:
            raise URLError('no host given')

        try:
            h = http_class(host) # will parse host:port
            if req.has_data():
                data = req.get_data()
                h.putrequest('POST', req.get_selector())
                if not req.headers.has_key('Content-type'):
                    h.putheader('Content-type',
                                'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
                if not req.headers.has_key('Content-length'):
                    h.putheader('Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
            else:
                h.putrequest('GET', req.get_selector())
        except socket.error, err:
            raise URLError(err)

        h.putheader('Host', host)
        for args in self.parent.addheaders:
            h.putheader(*args)
        for k, v in req.headers.items():
            h.putheader(k, v)
        h.endheaders()
        if req.has_data():
            h.send(data)

        code, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
        fp = h.getfile()
        if code == 200:
            return addinfourl(fp, hdrs, req.get_full_url())
        else:
            return self.parent.error('http', req, fp, code, msg, hdrs)