How can I send HTTP requests as string with python? something like this:
r = """GET /hello.htm HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT)
Host: www.stackoverflow.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive"""
answer = send(r)
print answer # gives me the response as string
Assuming python 3, it is recommended that you use urllib.request. But since you specifically ask for providing the HTTP message as a string, I assume you want to do low level stuff, so you can also use http.client:
import http.client
connection = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org')
connection.request('GET', '/')
response = connection.getresponse()
print(response.status)
print(response.msg)
answer = response.read()
print(answer)
