| Georg Brandl | fe7b00f | 2012-10-06 13:49:34 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | :mod:`http` --- HTTP modules |
| 2 | ============================ |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ``http`` is a package that collects several modules for working with the |
| 5 | HyperText Transfer Protocol: |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * :mod:`http.client` is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level URL |
| 8 | opening use :mod:`urllib.request` |
| 9 | * :mod:`http.server` contains basic HTTP server classes based on :mod:`socketserver` |
| 10 | * :mod:`http.cookies` has utilities for implementing state management with cookies |
| 11 | * :mod:`http.cookiejar` provides persistence of cookies |