getting all HTTP headers from urllib2 Request?

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I didn't try it, but the Request Class from urllib2 has a method
called, header_items(). That could be what your looking for.

On Mar 3, 1:38 am, cgoldberg <cgoldb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Python web client that uses urllib2.  It is easy enough to
> add my own HTTP headers to the outgoing requests. I just create a
> dictionary of the headers I want to add, and pass it to the Request
> initializer.
>
> These custom headers are not all that gets sent.  urllib2 attaches
> headers also.  You can view the headers that urrlib2 adds by looking
> at unredirected_hdrs.
>
> However, these aren't the only HTTP headers that get sent on the
> wire.  Other standard HTTP headers get added to outgoing requests as
> well as the custom ones I explicitly add and urllib2 adds. When I
> sniff the request using Wireshark, I see headers besides the ones I
> added myself.
>
> My question is how do a I get access to *all* of these headers?  I
> want to log every request (including the full set of HTTP headers that
> get sent) that gets sent from my program, and can't figure out how.
> any pointers?
>
> In a nutshell: How do I get *all* the outgoing headers from an HTTP
> request created by urllib2?
>
> - Corey Goldberg