httplib.HTTPMessage

Module httplib :: Class HTTPMessage

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Class HTTPMessage

Message --+    
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    Message --+
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             HTTPMessage

Method Summary
	`__init__(self, fp, seekable)` Initialize the class instance and read the headers. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__contains__(self, name)` Determine whether a message contains the named header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__delitem__(self, name)` Delete all occurrences of a specific header, if it is present. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__getitem__(self, name)` Get a specific header, as from a dictionary. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__len__(self)` Get the number of headers in a message. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__setitem__(self, name, value)` Set the value of a header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`__str__(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`addcontinue(self, key, more)` Add more field data from a continuation line.
	`addheader(self, key, value)` Add header for field key handling repeats.
	`get(self, name, default)` Get the header value for a name. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getaddr(self, name)` Get a single address from a header, as a tuple. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getaddrlist(self, name)` Get a list of addresses from a header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getallmatchingheaders(self, name)` Find all header lines matching a given header name. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getdate(self, name)` Retrieve a date field from a header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getdate_tz(self, name)` Retrieve a date field from a header as a 10-tuple. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getencoding(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`getfirstmatchingheader(self, name)` Get the first header line matching name. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getheader(self, name, default)` Get the header value for a name. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getheaders(self, name)` Get all values for a header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`getmaintype(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`getparam(self, name)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`getparamnames(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`getplist(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`getrawheader(self, name)` A higher-level interface to getfirstmatchingheader(). (inherited from `Message`)
	`getsubtype(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`gettype(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`has_key(self, name)` Determine whether a message contains the named header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`iscomment(self, line)` Determine whether a line should be skipped entirely. (inherited from `Message`)
	`isheader(self, line)` Determine whether a given line is a legal header. (inherited from `Message`)
	`islast(self, line)` Determine whether a line is a legal end of RFC 2822 headers. (inherited from `Message`)
	`items(self)` Get all of a message's headers. (inherited from `Message`)
	`keys(self)` Get all of a message's header field names. (inherited from `Message`)
	`parseplist(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`parsetype(self)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`readheaders(self)` Read header lines.
	`rewindbody(self)` Rewind the file to the start of the body (if seekable). (inherited from `Message`)
	`setdefault(self, name, default)` (inherited from `Message`)
	`values(self)` Get all of a message's header field values. (inherited from `Message`)

Method Details

addcontinue(self, key, more)

Add more field data from a continuation line.

addheader(self, key, value)

Add header for field key handling repeats.

readheaders(self)

Read header lines.

Read header lines up to the entirely blank line that terminates them. The (normally blank) line that ends the headers is skipped, but not included in the returned list. If a non-header line ends the headers, (which is an error), an attempt is made to backspace over it; it is never included in the returned list.

The variable self.status is set to the empty string if all went well, otherwise it is an error message. The variable self.headers is a completely uninterpreted list of lines contained in the header (so printing them will reproduce the header exactly as it appears in the file).

If multiple header fields with the same name occur, they are combined according to the rules in RFC 2616 sec 4.2:

Appending each subsequent field-value to the first, each separated by a comma. The order in which header fields with the same field-name are received is significant to the interpretation of the combined field value.

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