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+# Copyright 2010 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+
+"""One-line documentation for http module.
+
+A detailed description of http.
+"""
+
+__author__ = 'jcgregorio@google.com (Joe Gregorio)'
+
+
+class HttpRequest(object):
+  """Encapsulate an HTTP request.
+  """
+
+  def __init__(self, http, uri, method="GET", body=None, headers=None, postproc=None):
+    self.uri = uri
+    self.method = method
+    self.body = body
+    self.headers = headers or {}
+    self.http = http
+    self.postproc = postproc
+
+  def execute(self, http=None):
+    """Execute the request.
+
+    If an http object is passed in it is used instead of the
+    httplib2.Http object that the request was constructed with.
+    """
+    if http is None:
+      http = self.http
+    resp, content = http.request(self.uri, self.method,
+                                      body=self.body,
+                                      headers=self.headers)
+    return self.postproc(resp, content)