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The Http instance also uses a file cache in the directory <code>.cache</code>. <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> import httplib2 h = httplib2.Http(".cache") h.add_credentials('name', 'password') resp, content = h.request("https://example.org/chap/2", "PUT", body="This is text", headers={'content-type':'text/plain'} ) </pre></div> <p> Here is an example that connects to a server that supports the Atom Publishing Protocol. <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> import httplib2 h = httplib2.Http() h.add_credentials(myname, mypasswd) h.follow_all_redirects = True headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/atom+xml'} body = """<?xml version="1.0" ?> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title> <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id> <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated> <author><name>John Doe</name></author> <content>Some text.</content> </entry> """ uri = "http://www.example.com/collection/" resp, content = h.request(uri, "POST", body=body, headers=headers) </pre></div> <p> Here is an example of providing data to an HTML form processor. In this case we presume this is a POST form. We need to take our data and format it as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" data and use that as a body for a POST request. <p> <div class="verbatim"><pre> >>> import httplib2 >>> import urllib >>> data = {'name': 'fred', 'address': '123 shady lane'} >>> body = urllib.urlencode(data) >>> body 'name=fred&address=123+shady+lane' >>> h = httplib2.Http() >>> resp, content = h.request("http://example.com", method="POST", body=body) </pre></div> <p> Here is an example of using a proxy server: <div class="verbatim"><pre> import httplib2 import socks httplib2.debuglevel=4 h = httplib2.Http(proxy_info = httplib2.ProxyInfo(socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP, 'localhost', 8000)) r,c = h.request("http://bitworking.org/news/") </pre></div> <p> <p> <IMG WIDTH="556" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" SRC="img1.png" ALT="\begin{center}\vbox{\input{modref.ind} }\end{center}"> <p> <p> <div class="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'> <p></p><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="1.1.3 response Objects" href="response-objects.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="1.1 httplib2 A comprehensive" href="module-httplib2.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="About this document ..." href="about.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> <td align="center" width="100%">The httplib2 Library</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="response-objects.html">1.1.3 Response Objects</a> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="module-httplib2.html">1.1 httplib2 A comprehensive</a> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="about.html">About this document ...</a> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 0.3, documentation updated on Mar 8, 2007.</span> </div> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </body> </html>