HTTP Response Header Information in Python

Sometimes we need to get the HTTP Response header from our program. You can check the following python code, that prints the http response header:

>>> import urllib2
>>> usock = urllib2.urlopen('http://bdosn.org')
>>> print usock.info()
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:52:53 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.3
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

>>>

If you want to get the value of a particular item, use the get() method:

>>> print usock.info().get('Date')
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:52:53 GMT
>>>


Hope you will find this tips useful!

Comments

David said…
Brilliant! Just what I was looking for.
October 17, 2008 at 7:27 PM
AB said…
Me too!
Thanks
October 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Anonymous said…
unfortunately, this always follows redirects, so you can't get the header of the original page
February 28, 2011 at 12:23 PM
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