A simple HTTP client I had lying around that I wrote a long time ago. It supports cookies, redirects and stuff:

   1  #!/usr/bin/env python
   2  #
   3  #     Http
   4  #
   5  #     A simple HTTP client that supports persistent cookies
   6  #
   7  
   8  import cookielib
   9  import httplib
  10  #httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
  11  import urllib2
  12  
  13  class Http:
  14    def __init__(self, redirect_callback = None):
  15      self.redirect_callback = redirect_callback
  16      self.cookie_jar = cookielib.CookieJar()
  17      self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor (self.cookie_jar))
  18  
  19      urllib2.install_opener(self.opener)
  20  
  21    def get(self, url, headers = None):
  22      request = urllib2.Request(url, headers = headers)
  23      return self.execute_request(request)
  24  
  25    def post(self, url, headers = None, parameters = None):
  26      data = None
  27      if parameters != None:
  28        data = urllib.urlencode(parameters)
  29  
  30      request = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
  31      return self.execute_request(request)
  32  
  33    def execute_request(self, request):
  34      response = self.opener.open(request)
  35      # Check for redirect, maybe better way to do this
  36      if response.geturl() != request.get_full_url():
  37        if self.redirect_callback == None:
  38          raise "Redirected to '" + response.geturl() + "' but no redirect callback defined"
  39        else:
  40          self.redirect_callback(response)
  41  
  42      return response
  43