Info2: << Package: httplib2-py%type_pkg[python] Version: 0.7.3 Revision: 1 Distribution: (%type_pkg[python] = 24) 10.4, (%type_pkg[python] = 24) 10.5 Description: Another httplib for python DescDetail: << A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries. HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support. Keep-Alive Supports HTTP 1.1 Keep-Alive, keeping the socket open and performing multiple requests over the same connection if possible. Authentication The following types of HTTP Authentication are supported. These can be used over both HTTP and HTTPS. * Digest * Basic * WSSE * HMAC Digest * Google Account Authentication Caching The module can optionally operate with a private cache that understands the Cache-Control: header and uses both the ETag and Last-Modified cache validators. All Methods The module can handle any HTTP request method, not just GET and POST. Redirects Automatically follows 3XX redirects on GETs. Compression Handles both 'deflate' and 'gzip' types of compression. Lost update support Automatically adds back ETags into PUT requests to resources we have already cached. This implements Section 3.2 of Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout Unit Tested A large and growing set of unit tests. << Source: http://httplib2.googlecode.com/files/httplib2-%v.tar.gz Source-MD5: 34de5295d0c485dc8a8af64f2a76a2b9 Type: python (2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7) Depends: python%type_pkg[python] CompileScript: << %p/bin/python%type_raw[python] setup.py build << InstallScript: << %p/bin/python%type_raw[python] setup.py install --root %d << DocFiles: README License: OSI-Approved Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/ Maintainer: Kurt Schwehr # Info2 <<