Other HTTP Headers

You can specify additional HTTP request headers as a dictionary. When you download a feed from a remote web server, Universal Feed Parser exposes the complete set of HTTP response headers as a dictionary.

Sending custom HTTP request headers

>>> import feedparser
>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom03.xml',
                          request_headers={'Cache-control': 'max-age=0'})

Accessing other HTTP response headers

>>> import feedparser
>>> d = feedparser.parse('http://feedparser.org/docs/examples/atom03.xml')
>>> d.headers
{'date': 'Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:57:50 GMT',
'server': 'Apache/2.0.49 (Debian GNU/Linux)',
'last-modified': 'Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:00:34 GMT',
'etag': '"6c132-941-ad7e3080"',
'accept-ranges': 'bytes',
'vary': 'Accept-Encoding,User-Agent',
'content-encoding': 'gzip',
'content-length': '883',
'connection': 'close',
'content-type': 'application/xml'}