#!/usr/bin/env python __doc__ = """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, re try: import msvcrt, os msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY) msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY) except ImportError: pass headers = [h.lower() for h in sys.argv[3:]] conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(sys.argv[1]) conn.request("GET", sys.argv[2]) response = conn.getresponse() print response.status, response.reason for h in headers: if response.getheader(h, None) is not None: print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h)) print data = response.read() data = re.sub('\d+ years', 'many years', data) sys.stdout.write(data) if 200 <= response.status <= 299: sys.exit(0) sys.exit(1)