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python httplib模块HTTP请求详解

python 模块 httplib 处理HTTP请求

1. 介绍

httplib是提供了Web客户端的功能和接口。这样httplib将会完成Web浏览器的基本功能。

模块urllib,urllib2,httplib的区别(细节另起文章)
httplib实现了http和https的客户端协议,但是在python中,模块urllib和urllib2对httplib进行了更上层的封装。

2. 安装

[root@localhost ~]# pip install httplib2
Downloading/unpacking httplib2
  Downloading httplib2-0.17.0.tar.gz (220kB): 220kB downloaded
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/httplib2/setup.py) egg_info for package httplib2
    
Installing collected packages: httplib2
  Running setup.py install for httplib2
    
Successfully installed httplib2
Cleaning up...

3. class httplib.HTTPConnection

3.1 HTTPConnection()

3.1.1 语法

 class httplib.HTTPConnection(host[,port[, strict[, timeout[, source_address]]]]) 

3.1.2 用法

该类用于创建一个http类型的请求链接

3.1.3 参数

  • host: 请求的服务器host,不能带http://开头
  • port: 服务器web服务端口
  • strict: 是否严格检查请求的状态行,就是http1.0/1.1
    协议版本的那一行,即请求的第一行,默认为False,为True时检查错误会抛异常。
  • timeout: 单次请求的超时时间,没有时默认使用httplib模块内的全局的超时时间

3.1.4 返回

HTTPConnection类会实例并返回一个HTTPConnection对象

3.1.5 详解

HttpConnection的实例表示与HTTP服务器的事务。实例化时需要传递主机和可选的端口号。如果没有端口号,试图以host:port格式从主机字符串提取,如果提取失败则使用默认的HTTP端口(80)。
参数strict默认为false,表示在无法解析状态行时(status line)不能被HTTP/1.0或1.1解析时不抛出BadStatusLine异常;可选参数timeout表示即阻塞在多少秒后超时,如果没有给出默认使用全局超时设置。可选参数source_address表示HTTP的源地址(host, port)。

实例代代码:

import httplib
conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com')
print conn
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com:80')
print conn conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com','80')
print conn conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com','80',True)
print conn conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com','80',True,10)
print conn conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.coonote.com:80',True,10)
print conn

输出:

<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b90050>
<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b96830>
<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b96710>
<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b96830>
<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b96710>
<httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x7feb97b96830>

3.2 HTTPSConnection()

3.2.1 语法

httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.baidu.com',443,key_file,cert_file,True,10)

3.2.2 用法

该类用于创建一个https类型的请求链接

3.2.3 参数

  • key_file:一个包含PEM格式的私钥文件
  • cert_file:一个包含PEM格式的认证文件
  • other:其它同http参数

3.2.4 返回

同样返回一个HTTPSConnection对象

注意
要创建https链接,必须要保证底层的socket模块是支持ssl的编译模式,即编译时ssl选项的开关是开着的

3.2.5 详解

HttpConnection的子类,使用SSL与安全服务器通信。默认端口为443。key_file是包含PEM格式私钥的文件名称。 cert_file中是PEM格式的证书链文件。

3.2.6 实例代码

import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.baidu.com',443,key_file,cert_file,True,10)

3.3 HTTPConnection.request()

3.3.1 语法

 HTTPConnection.request( method , url [ , body [ , headers ]] )

3.3.2 用法

调用request方法会向服务器发送一次请求

3.3.3 参数

  • method: 请求的方式,如’GET’,‘POST’,‘HEAD’,‘PUT’,'DELETE’等
  • url: 请求的网页路径。如:‘/index.html’
  • body: 请求是否带数据,该参数是一个字典
  • headers: 请求是否带头信息,该参数是一个字典,不过键的名字是指定的http头关键字

3.3.4 返回

无返回,其实就是相对于向服务其发送数据,但是没有最后回车

3.3.5 代码

import httplib
conn =httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com:80',True,10)
print conn.request('get','/','',{
  'user-agent':'test'})

3.4 HTTPConnection.getresponse()

3.4.1 说明

获取一个http响应对象,相当于执行最后的2个回车

3.4.2 返回

HTTPResponse对象(下面会用到)

3.4.3 代码

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http2.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib

conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('get','/','',{
  'user-agent':'test'})
res = conn.getresponse()
print res
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http2.py
<httplib.HTTPResponse instance at 0x7f459bd107e8>

3.5 HTTPConnection.connect()

说明:对象创建之后连接到指定的服务器

3.6 HTTPConnection.close()

说明:关闭与服务器的连接
代码:

 #!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('get','/','',{
  'user-agent':'test'})
res = conn.getresponse()
print res
conn.close()

3.7 HTTPConnection.set_debuglevel( level )

说明: 设置高度的级别。参数level 的默认值为0 ,表示不输出任何调试信息

 #!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('get','/','',{
  'user-agent':'test'})
debug = conn.set_debuglevel(0)
print debug
conn.close()

4. class httplib.HTTPResponse

HTTPResponse表示服务器对客户端请求的响应。往往通过调用HTTPConnection.getresponse()来创建,实例连接成功之后返回的类,不能由用户实例化。
它有如下方法和属性:

4.1 HTTPResponse.read([amt])

说明: 获得http响应的内容部分,即网页源码
原型:body = res.read([amt])amt: 读取指定长度的字符,默认为空,即读取所有内容
返回:网页内容字符串
获取响应的消息体。如果请求的是一个普通的网页,那么该方法返回的是页面的html。可选参数amt表示从响应流中读取指定字节的数据。

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http5.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.read()
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http5.py
<!DOCTYPE html><!--STATUS OK-->
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
	<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//s1.bdstatic.com"/>
	·········

获取执指定的响应头。Name表示头域(headerfield)名,可选参数default在头域名不存在的情况下作为默认值返回。

4.2 HTTPResponse.getheaders()

说明; 获得所有的响应头内容,是一个元组列表[(name,value),(name2,value2)]
附代码:

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http6.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.getheaders()
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http6.py
[('content-length', '14615'), ('traceid', '1585662997043926733812101108609502278751'), ('set-cookie', 'BAIDUID=C1DA400A878388A271CC54BCDE99F6F5:FG=1; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com, BIDUPSID=C1DA400A878388A271CC54BCDE99F6F5; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com, PSTM=1585662997; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com, BAIDUID=C1DA400A878388A2E4674A2D94B0BB5F:FG=1; max-age=31536000; expires=Wed, 31-Mar-21 13:56:37 GMT; domain=.baidu.com; path=/; version=1; comment=bd'), ('accept-ranges', 'bytes'), ('vary', 'Accept-Encoding'), ('server', 'BWS/1.1'), ('connection', 'keep-alive'), ('x-ua-compatible', 'IE=Edge,chrome=1'), ('pragma', 'no-cache'), ('cache-control', 'no-cache'), ('date', 'Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:56:37 GMT'), ('p3p', 'CP=" OTI DSP COR IVA OUR IND COM ", CP=" OTI DSP COR IVA OUR IND COM "'), ('content-type', 'text/html')]

4.3 HTTPResponse.msg()

说明:获取所有的响应头信息。包含响应头的mimetools.Message实例

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http7.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.msg
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http7.py
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 14615
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:59:33 GMT
P3p: CP=" OTI DSP COR IVA OUR IND COM "
P3p: CP=" OTI DSP COR IVA OUR IND COM "
Pragma: no-cache
Server: BWS/1.1
Set-Cookie: BAIDUID=03C55CB4B2F53EEB89BC70720ABA5DB8:FG=1; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com
Set-Cookie: BIDUPSID=03C55CB4B2F53EEB89BC70720ABA5DB8; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com
Set-Cookie: PSTM=1585663173; expires=Thu, 31-Dec-37 23:55:55 GMT; max-age=2147483647; path=/; domain=.baidu.com
Set-Cookie: BAIDUID=03C55CB4B2F53EEB1D3F571BA752A14E:FG=1; max-age=31536000; expires=Wed, 31-Mar-21 13:59:33 GMT; domain=.baidu.com; path=/; version=1; comment=bd
Traceid: 1585663173045617562611241334006733438813
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Ua-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1

4.4 HTTPResponse.msg

说明:获取服务器所使用的http协议版本。11表示http/1.1;10表示http/1.0

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http8.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.version
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http8.py
11

4.5 HTTPResponse.status

说明: 获取响应的状态码。如:200表示请求成功

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http9.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.status
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http9.py
200

4.6 HTTPResponse.reason

说明:返回服务器处理请求的结果说明。一般为”OK”

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http10.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.baidu.com',80,False,10)
conn.request('GET','')
res = conn.getresponse()
print res.reason
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http10.py
OK

5. class httplib.HTTPMessage

HTTPMessage实例用于保存HTTP响应头。它使用mimetools.Message类实现,并提供了处理HTTP头的工具函数。它不直接实例化的用户。不能由用户实例化。

6. 异常处理

exception httplib.HTTPException

Exception的子类,此模块中的其他异常的基类。下面的类默认是该类的直接子类。

httplib.NotConnected

httplib.InvalidURL

httplib.UnknownProtocol

httplib.UnknownTransferEncoding

httplib.UnimplementedFileMode

httplib.IncompleteRead

httplib.ImproperConnectionState

httplib.CannotSendRequest

ImproperConnectionState的一个子类。

httplib.CannotSendHeader

ImproperConnectionState的一个子类。

httplib.ResponseNotReady

ImproperConnectionState的一个子类。

httplib.BadStatusLine

服务器返回的HTTP状态码不认识时产生。

7. 实战

[root@localhost httplib2]# cat http11.py
#!/usr/bin/python
#coding:utf-8
import httplib, urllib
conn = None
try:
    params = urllib.urlencode({
  'name': 'qiye', 'age': 22})
    headers = {
  "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    , "Accept": "text/plain"}
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.zhihu.com", 80, timeout=3)
    conn.request("POST", "/login", params, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    print response.getheaders() # 获取头信息
    print response.status
    print response.read()
except Exception, e:
    print e
finally:
    if conn:
        conn.close()
[root@localhost httplib2]# python http11.py
[('x-edge-timing', '0.000'), ('content-length', '278'), ('via', 'vcache3.cn2204[,0]'), ('x-cdn-provider', 'alibaba'), ('eagleid', '3ad79e1715856640307233330e'), ('server', 'Tengine'), ('connection', 'keep-alive'), ('location', 'https://www.zhihu.com/login'), ('date', 'Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:13:50 GMT'), ('content-type', 'text/html'), ('timing-allow-origin', '*')]
301
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI.</p>
<hr/>Powered by Tengine</body>
</html>