Requests

HTTP

HTTP or HTTPS requests take place through the core/net module.

To request the class from within a module:

http = self.server.rget('http.url')

Creating a request

response = http.request(url, code="GET", params={}, body=None, headers={}, timeout=None)

Parameter	Description
url	Resource to request from.
code	Can be "POST" or "GET", if "POST" then send params through the POST body (assuming body is None), otherwise send params through the URL.
params	CGI Parameters.
body	POST body, will send POST if body is set.
headers	HTTP Headers.
timeout	Timeout in seconds.

Reading from a request

Attribute	Description
Response.headers	The headers in a dictionary.
Response.raw()	Get the raw response from the server.
Response.read()	The response, decoded into a string.
Response.json()	The response, decoded into a string and loaded as JSON.

Handling Errors

Exception	Description
http.Error	Base exception.
http.TimeoutError	Timeout happened.
http.ResolveError	Unable to resolve hostname.
http.HTTPError	HTTP Error, same as urllib.errors.HTTPError. The code attribute contains the error.