httpclient.rst

tornado.httpclient --- Asynchronous HTTP client

.. automodule:: tornado.httpclient

   HTTP client interfaces
   ----------------------

   .. autoclass:: HTTPClient
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   .. autoclass:: AsyncHTTPClient
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   Request objects
   ---------------
   .. autoclass:: HTTPRequest
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   Response objects
   ----------------
   .. autoclass:: HTTPResponse
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   Exceptions
   ----------
   .. autoexception:: HTTPError
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   Command-line interface
   ----------------------

   This module provides a simple command-line interface to fetch a url
   using Tornado's HTTP client.  Example usage::

      # Fetch the url and print its body
      python -m tornado.httpclient http://www.google.com

      # Just print the headers
      python -m tornado.httpclient --print_headers --print_body=false http://www.google.com

Implementations

.. automodule:: tornado.simple_httpclient
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.. module:: tornado.curl_httpclient

libcurl-based HTTP client.