How to view the body of HTTP page?

[Robert W. Bill]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Sam Wun wrote:
> I found no method is suitable in HTTP object for retrieving the document
> body from http webpage.
> Does anyone know any way of doing that?
> 
> Thanks
> Sam.

the getfile() method is what you are looking for.  This method
returns a file object that you can read from.
 
The example below is roughly the same as what is in the Python
Library Reference (11.3):
>>>import httplib
>>>h = httplib.HTTP("www.python.org")
>>>h.putrequest('GET', '/')
>>>h.putheader('Accept', 'text/html')
>>>h.endheaders()
>>>responsecode, responsemessage, headers = h.getreply()
>>>print errcode # should be 200
  - here's the part you're looking for -
>>>f = h.getfile()
>>>documentBody = f.read() # here's the data you're seeking
>>>f.close()
>>>print documentBody

Visit  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html for
inspiration.

-robert