Standalone HTTP parser?

[Steve Holden]

Christopher Stawarz wrote:
> Does anyone know of a standalone module for parsing and generating  
> HTTP messages?  I'm looking for something that will take a string and  
> return a convenient message object, and vice versa.  All the Python  
> HTTP parsing code I've seen is either intimately bound to the  
> corresponding socket I/O operations (e.g. httplib, httplib2,  
> BaseHTTPServer) and/or buried in somebody's framework (e.g. Twisted).
> 
> I want to write some HTTP servers/clients that do asynchronous I/O  
> using my own engine (multitask), so I need a HTTP package that won't  
> insist on doing the I/O for me.
> 
Look at rfc822 or the email module - HTTP responses are in the same 
format, modulo the first line status. Requests too, though with a 
different format for the first line.

regards
  Steve
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