#!/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): assert not path.startswith('/'), path 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)