Chapter 4. Programming with HTTP for the Internet
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Downloading data from an HTTP server
- Serving HTTP requests from your machine
- Extracting cookie information after visiting a website
- Submitting web forms
- Sending web requests through a proxy server
- Checking whether a web page exists with the HEAD request
- Spoofing Mozilla Firefox in your client code
- Saving bandwidth in web requests with the HTTP compression
- Writing an HTTP fail-over client with resume and partial downloading
- Writing a simple HTTPS server code with Python and OpenSSL
- Building asynchronous network applications with Twisted
- Building asynchronous network applications with Tornado
- Building concurrent applications with Tornado Future
