Re: getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?
> > Looking at the httplib sources, the only headers it may add are Host, > > Accept-Encoding: identity, and Content-Length. now that I think of it, if it is only 3 headers, I can just override them explicitly from urllib2 and then log that. thanks a lot for looking into the httplib source! -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?
> Looking at the httplib sources, the only headers it may add are Host, > Accept-Encoding: identity, and Content-Length. those are exactly the headers I want to capture. do you know how to get a hold of them from a request using urllib2. -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?
En Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:44:12 -0200, cgoldberg escribió: I didn't try it, but the Request Class from urllib2 has a method called, header_items(). That could be what your looking for. yes, that method only shows you all the headers added by urllib2. there are other headers that are produced by httplib under the covers that are added to the outgoing http request. That is what I am trying to get at. Looking at the httplib sources, the only headers it may add are Host, Accept-Encoding: identity, and Content-Length. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?
> I didn't try it, but the Request Class from urllib2 has a method > called, header_items(). That could be what your looking for. yes, that method only shows you all the headers added by urllib2. there are other headers that are produced by httplib under the covers that are added to the outgoing http request. That is what I am trying to get at. -Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?
I didn't try it, but the Request Class from urllib2 has a method called, header_items(). That could be what your looking for. On Mar 3, 1:38 am, cgoldberg wrote: > I have a Python web client that uses urllib2. It is easy enough to > add my own HTTP headers to the outgoing requests. I just create a > dictionary of the headers I want to add, and pass it to the Request > initializer. > > These custom headers are not all that gets sent. urllib2 attaches > headers also. You can view the headers that urrlib2 adds by looking > at unredirected_hdrs. > > However, these aren't the only HTTP headers that get sent on the > wire. Other standard HTTP headers get added to outgoing requests as > well as the custom ones I explicitly add and urllib2 adds. When I > sniff the request using Wireshark, I see headers besides the ones I > added myself. > > My question is how do a I get access to *all* of these headers? I > want to log every request (including the full set of HTTP headers that > get sent) that gets sent from my program, and can't figure out how. > any pointers? > > In a nutshell: How do I get *all* the outgoing headers from an HTTP > request created by urllib2? > > - Corey Goldberg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
