>> Is there any way to fetch a website's host/version headers using
>> Python?
>
> >>> import httplib
> >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("docs.python.org")
> >>> conn.connect()
> >>> conn.request("HEAD", "/")
> >>> response = dict([(k.lower(), v) for k,v in conn.getresponse()])
> >>> conn.close()
> >>> server = response["server"]
> >>> print server
> Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4 mod_python/3.1.3
> Python/2.3.5 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Dang, I copied that over by hand and miscopied it with a big
error or two. It can also be cleaned up a bit, as I learned (the
getheader() call is case-insensitive, and the connect() call was
superfluous). Copying verbatim...
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("docs.python.org")
>>> conn.request("HEAD", "/")
>>> response = conn.getresponse()
>>> conn.close()
>>> server = response.getheader("server")
>>> print server
Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4 mod_python/3.1.3
Python/2.3.5 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Sorry about the rubbish code the first time out the gate.
-tkc
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