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http — HTTP modules
Source code: Lib/http/__init__.py
http
is a package that collects several modules for working with the HyperText Transfer Protocol:
http.client
is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level URL opening useurllib.request
http.server
contains basic HTTP server classes based onsocketserver
http.cookies
has utilities for implementing state management with cookieshttp.cookiejar
provides persistence of cookies
http
is also a module that defines a number of HTTP status codes and associated messages through the http.HTTPStatus
enum:
- class
http.
HTTPStatus
-
New in version 3.5.
A subclass of
enum.IntEnum
that defines a set of HTTP status codes, reason phrases and long descriptions written in English.Usage:
>>> from http import HTTPStatus >>> HTTPStatus.OK <HTTPStatus.OK: 200> >>> HTTPStatus.OK == 200 True >>> HTTPStatus.OK.value 200 >>> HTTPStatus.OK.phrase 'OK' >>> HTTPStatus.OK.description 'Request fulfilled, document follows' >>> list(HTTPStatus) [<HTTPStatus.CONTINUE: 100>, <HTTPStatus.SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS: 101>, ...]
HTTP status codes
Supported, IANA-registered status codes available in http.HTTPStatus
are:
Code |
Enum Name |
Details |
---|---|---|
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.2.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.2.2 |
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WebDAV RFC 2518 , Section 10.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.3 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.4 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.5 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.3.6 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7233 , Section 4.1 |
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WebDAV RFC 4918 , Section 11.1 |
|
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WebDAV Binding Extensions RFC 5842 , Section 7.1 (Experimental) |
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Delta Encoding in HTTP RFC 3229 , Section 10.4.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.3 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.4 |
|
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7232 , Section 4.1 |
|
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.5 |
|
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.4.7 |
|
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Permanent Redirect RFC 7238 , Section 3 (Experimental) |
|
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.1 |
|
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HTTP/1.1 Authentication RFC 7235 , Section 3.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.3 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.4 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.5 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.6 |
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HTTP/1.1 Authentication RFC 7235 , Section 3.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.7 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.8 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.9 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.10 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7232 , Section 4.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.11 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.12 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.13 |
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HTTP/1.1 Range Requests RFC 7233 , Section 4.4 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.14 |
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HTTP/2 RFC 7540 , Section 9.1.2 |
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WebDAV RFC 4918 , Section 11.2 |
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WebDAV RFC 4918 , Section 11.3 |
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WebDAV RFC 4918 , Section 11.4 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.5.15 |
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Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585 |
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Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585 |
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Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585 |
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An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles RFC 7725 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.1 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.2 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.3 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.4 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.5 |
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HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231 , Section 6.6.6 |
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Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP RFC 2295 , Section 8.1 (Experimental) |
|
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WebDAV RFC 4918 , Section 11.5 |
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WebDAV Binding Extensions RFC 5842 , Section 7.2 (Experimental) |
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An HTTP Extension Framework RFC 2774 , Section 7 (Experimental) |
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Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585 , Section 6 |
In order to preserve backwards compatibility, enum values are also present in the http.client
module in the form of constants. The enum name is equal to the constant name (i.e. http.HTTPStatus.OK
is also available as http.client.OK
).
Changed in version 3.7: Added 421 MISDIRECTED_REQUEST
status code.
New in version 3.8: Added 451 UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS
status code.