Class HTTPSHandler

Instance Methods

__init__(self, ssl_context=None)

https_open(self, req)
Return an addinfourl object for the request, using http_class.

https_request(self, request)

Inherited from urllib2.AbstractHTTPHandler: do_open, do_request_, set_http_debuglevel

Inherited from urllib2.BaseHandler: __lt__, add_parent, close

Class Variables
Inherited from `urllib2.BaseHandler`: `handler_order`

Method Details

init(self, ssl_context=None)
(Constructor)

Overrides: urllib2.AbstractHTTPHandler.__init__

https_open(self, req)

Return an addinfourl object for the request, using http_class.

http_class must implement the HTTPConnection API from httplib. The addinfourl return value is a file-like object. It also has methods and attributes including:

info(): return a mimetools.Message object for the headers
geturl(): return the original request URL
code: HTTP status code

Class HTTPSHandler

__init__(self, ssl_context=None) (Constructor)

https_open(self, req)

init(self, ssl_context=None)
(Constructor)