tests/get-with-headers.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""This does HTTP GET requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""

import httplib, sys

try:
    import msvcrt, os
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

twice = False
if '--twice' in sys.argv:
    sys.argv.remove('--twice')
    twice = True

reasons = {'Not modified': 'Not Modified'} # python 2.4

tag = None
def request(host, path, show):

    global tag
    headers = {}
    if tag:
        headers['If-None-Match'] = tag

    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
    conn.request("GET", path, None, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    print response.status, reasons.get(response.reason, response.reason)
    for h in [h.lower() for h in show]:
        if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
            print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))

    print
    data = response.read()
    sys.stdout.write(data)

    if twice and response.getheader('ETag', None):
        tag = response.getheader('ETag')

    return response.status

status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if twice:
    status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])

if 200 <= status <= 305:
    sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)