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541.1.1 Http Objects
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58Http objects have the following methods:
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62 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-11' xml:id='l2h-11' class="method">request</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
63 <td><var>uri, </var><big>[</big><var>method="GET", body=None, headers=None, redirections=DEFAULT_MAX_REDIRECTS</var><big>]</big><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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65Performs a single HTTP request.
66The <var>uri</var> is the URI of the HTTP resource and can begin with either <code>http</code> or <code>https</code>. The value of <var>uri</var> must be an absolute URI.
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69The <var>method</var> is the HTTP method to perform, such as <code>GET</code>, <code>POST</code>, <code>DELETE</code>, etc. There is no restriction
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73The <var>body</var> is the entity body to be sent with the request. It is a string
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77Any extra headers that are to be sent with the request should be provided in the
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81The maximum number of redirect to follow before raising an exception is <var>redirections</var>. The default is 5.
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84The return value is a tuple of (response, content), the first being and instance of the
85<tt class="class">Response</tt> class, the second being a string that contains the response entity body.
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90 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-12' xml:id='l2h-12' class="method">add_credentials</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
91 <td><var>name, password</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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93Adds a name and password that will be used when a request
94requires authentication.
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99 <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-13' xml:id='l2h-13' class="method">clear_credentials</tt></b>(</nobr></td>
100 <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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102Remove all the names and passwords used for authentication.
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106<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-14' xml:id='l2h-14' class="member">follow_all_redirects</tt></b></dt>
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jcgregoriof76c9512006-11-07 18:01:50 +0000[diff] [blame^]108If <code>False</code>, which is the default, only safe redirects are followed, where
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114<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-15' xml:id='l2h-15' class="member">ignore_etag</tt></b></dt>
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116Defaults to <code>False</code>. If True, then any etags present in the cached response
117are ignored when processing the current request, i.e. httplib2 does *not* use
118'if-match' for PUT or 'if-none-match' when GET or HEAD requests are made. This
119is mainly to deal with broken servers which supply an etag, but change it capriciously.
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