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Asked: 2026-06-05T04:51:09+00:00

I’m investigating the possibility of making a single http request using python to retrieve

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I’m investigating the possibility of making a single http request using python to retrieve both the html as well as http headers info instead of having to make 2 seperate calls.

Anyone know of any good ways?

Also what is the performance differences between the different methods of making these requests, e.g. urllib2 and httpconnection, etc.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just use urllib2.urlopen(). The HTML can be retrieved by calling the read() method of the returned object, and the headers are available in the headers attribute.

    import urllib2
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')

>>> print f.headers
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:57:25 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Server: gws
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Connection: close

>>> print f.read()
<!doctype html><html itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
... etc ...
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