Looking for the right library for a simple HTTP client

[David Stanek]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:29 AM,
scriptlearner at gmail.com<scriptlearner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to implement a simple client that can do the following:
> 1)to send the following kinds of HTTP requests and validate responses
> 1.1 GET
> 1.2 POST with application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding
> 1.3 POST with multipart/form-data encoding
>
> 2)to set any number of (even duplicate) headers.  For example, I may
> intentionally add the following Cookie: headers to a request:
> Cookie: id_1=v1;Domain=sample.com;Path=/
> Cookie: id_1=v1;Domain=sample.com;Path=/ <--same as the one above
> Cookie: id_2=v1;Domain=sample.com;Path=/
>
> 3)to set proxy cfg so requests can go through a proxy server to reach
> the target server.
>
> 4)to send multiple requests simultaneously.
>
>
> I have Python 2.4.1 on Solaris 9 and 10, and I don't have any plan to
> upgrade to latest version of Python.
>
> I looked around and I found httplib and urllib.  Are they sufficient
> for my tasks 1 to 3 above?  Any good sample codes will be great.
> Thanks.
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

I like urllib2. The examples[1] are pretty good.

[1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/urllib2-examples.html

-- 
David
blog: http://www.traceback.org
twitter: http://twitter.com/dstanek