Request and Response

class dragline.http.Request(url, method=None, callback=None, meta=None, headers=None, files=None, data=None, json=None, params=None, auth=None, cookies=None, timeout=None, allow_redirects=None, proxies=None, stream=None, verify=None, cert=None, dont_filter=None)

Parameters:

• url – URL to send.
• method – HTTP method to use.
• callback – name of the function to call after url is downloaded.
• meta – A dict that contains arbitrary metadata for this request.
• headers – dictionary of headers to send.
• files – dictionary of {filename: fileobject} files to multipart upload.
• data – the body to attach to the request. If a dictionary is provided, form-encoding will take place.
• json – json for the body to attach to the request (if data is not specified).
• params – dictionary of URL parameters to append to the URL.
• auth – Auth handler or (user, pass) tuple.
• cookies – dictionary or CookieJar of cookies to attach to this request.
• timeout (float or tuple) – (optional) How long to wait for the server to send data before giving up, as a float, or a tuple.
• allow_redirects (bool) – (optional) Set to True by default.
• proxies – (optional) Dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy.
• stream – (optional) whether to immediately download the response content. Defaults to False.
• verify – (optional) if True, the SSL cert will be verified. A CA_BUNDLE path can also be provided.
• cert – (optional) if String, path to ssl client cert file (.pem). If Tuple, (‘cert’, ‘key’) pair.

send()

This function sends HTTP requests.

Returns:response Return type:dragline.http.Response Raises:dragline.http.RequestError: when failed to fetch contents

>>> req = Request("http://www.example.org")
>>> response = req.send()
>>> print response.headers['status']
200