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BasicHttp

A easy to use and clean HTTP client lib for Python.

Description

BasicHttp is based on httplib.

How to use

from basic_http import BasicHttp
request = BasicHttp('http://www.example.com/')
response = request.GET()
response
{
    'status': 200,
    'header': {
        'Content-Length': '596',
        'Server': 'Apache',
        'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8',
    },
    'body': '...You have reached this web page by ...'
}

Params

data: string: raw XML or JSON document. dict: key-value Python dictionary.

headers: dict: key-value Python dictonary with HTTP request headers

wanted_status: list: value Python list with HTTP status code expected

Examples

from basic_http import BasicHttp
request = BasicHttp('http://www.example.com/')
request.authenticate('user', 'pass')
response = request.GET(headers={'Accept': application/json})

request = BasicHttp('http://www.example.com/')
request.authenticate('user', 'pass')
response = request.POST(data='raw XML here.', wanted_status=[201,202])

request = BasicHttp('http://www.example.com/')
request.authenticate('user', 'pass')
response = request.PUT(data={'id': 5, 'name': example}, wanted_status=[204,])