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HTTP/1.1 client library
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HTTPConnection goes through a number of "states", which define when a client
may legally make another request or fetch the response for a particular
request. This diagram details these state transitions:
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| HTTPConnection()
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Idle
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| putrequest()
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Request-started
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| ( putheader() )* endheaders()
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Request-sent
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| response = getresponse()
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Unread-response [Response-headers-read]
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| response.read() | putrequest()
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Idle Req-started-unread-response
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response.read() | | ( putheader() )* endheaders()
v v
Request-started Req-sent-unread-response
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| response.read()
v
Request-sent
This diagram presents the following rules:
-- a second request may not be started until {response-headers-read}
-- a response [object] cannot be retrieved until {request-sent}
-- there is no differentiation between an unread response body and a
partially read response body
Note: this enforcement is applied by the HTTPConnection class. The
HTTPResponse class does not enforce this state machine, which
implies sophisticated clients may accelerate the request/response
pipeline. Caution should be taken, though: accelerating the states
beyond the above pattern may imply knowledge of the server's
connection-close behavior for certain requests. For example, it
is impossible to tell whether the server will close the connection
UNTIL the response headers have been read; this means that further
requests cannot be placed into the pipeline until it is known that
the server will NOT be closing the connection.
Logical State __state __response
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Idle _CS_IDLE None
Request-started _CS_REQ_STARTED None
Request-sent _CS_REQ_SENT None
Unread-response _CS_IDLE <response_class>
Req-started-unread-response _CS_REQ_STARTED <response_class>
Req-sent-unread-response _CS_REQ_SENT <response_class>
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__all__ = ['HTTP', 'HTTPResponse', 'HTTPConnection', 'HTTPException', 'NotConnected', 'UnknownProtocol', 'UnknownTransferEncoding', 'UnimplementedFileMode', 'IncompleteRead', 'InvalidURL', 'ImproperConnectionState', 'CannotSendRequest', 'CannotSendHeader', 'ResponseNotReady', 'BadStatusLine', 'error', 'responses', 'HTTPSConnection'] responses = {100: 'Continue', 101: 'Switching Protocols', 200: 'OK', 201: 'Created', 202: 'Accepted', 203: 'Non-Authoritative Information', 204: 'No Content', 205: 'Reset Content', 206: 'Partial Content', 300: 'Multiple Choices', ...} |