openid.fetchers.HTTPFetcher

Class HTTPFetcher

object --+ | HTTPFetcher

Known Subclasses:

CurlHTTPFetcher
, ExceptionWrappingFetcher
, HTTPLib2Fetcher
, Urllib2Fetcher

This class is the interface for openid HTTP fetchers. This interface is only important if you need to write a new fetcher for some reason.

Instance Methods

HTTPResponse

fetch(self, url, body=None, headers=None)
This performs an HTTP POST or GET, following redirects along the way.

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Inherited from object: __delattr__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __init__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __str__

Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

fetch(self, url, body=None, headers=None)

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This performs an HTTP POST or GET, following redirects along the way. If a body is specified, then the request will be a POST. Otherwise, it will be a GET.

Parameters:

headers ({str:str}) - HTTP headers to include with the request

Returns: HTTPResponse

An object representing the server's HTTP response. If there are network or protocol errors, an exception will be raised. HTTP error responses, like 404 or 500, do not cause exceptions.

Raises:

Exception - Different implementations will raise different errors based on the underlying HTTP library.