Get HTTP response codes with python

Question

I know how to do this with httplib, but I need to install a user agent as well, and I'm sure you need to do urllib. How can I get http response codes with urllib?

Answer 1

You can use .getcode() in urllib2 to get the HTTP code:

 urllib2.urlopen("http://google.com").getcode() 

Full headers with are in info() as a list:

 urllib2.urlopen("http://google.com").info().headers 

Answer 2

Actually, httplib DOES allows you to install User-Agent.

 headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'someapp', 'Content-Type' : 'text/html' } conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host, port) conn.request('POST', '/foobar', 'mydata', headers)