tests/get-with-headers.py
author Javi Merino <cibervicho@gmail.com>
Wed, 02 Oct 2013 22:46:32 +0100
branchstable
changeset 1297 60e578eae19d
parent 1201 6f2f7246e4be
permissions -rwxr-xr-x
get-with-headers: don't block indefinitely if the server had an internal error If the server had an internal error and returned 500, there's nothing to read, so "response.read()" blocks indefinitely. Only output the response if there's really a response. [ original upstream message ]

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""This does HTTP GET requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""

import httplib, sys

try:
    import msvcrt, os
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

twice = False
if '--twice' in sys.argv:
    sys.argv.remove('--twice')
    twice = True
headeronly = False
if '--headeronly' in sys.argv:
    sys.argv.remove('--headeronly')
    headeronly = True

reasons = {'Not modified': 'Not Modified'} # python 2.4

tag = None
def request(host, path, show):
    assert not path.startswith('/'), path
    global tag
    headers = {}
    if tag:
        headers['If-None-Match'] = tag

    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
    conn.request("GET", '/' + path, None, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    print response.status, reasons.get(response.reason, response.reason)
    if show[:1] == ['-']:
        show = sorted(h for h, v in response.getheaders()
                      if h.lower() not in show)
    for h in [h.lower() for h in show]:
        if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
            print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))
    if not headeronly:
        print
        if response.status != 500:
            data = response.read()
            sys.stdout.write(data)

        if twice and response.getheader('ETag', None):
            tag = response.getheader('ETag')

    return response.status

status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if twice:
    status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])

if 200 <= status <= 305:
    sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)