python-t-http

A simple console http client, that was made during my time at the Uni

HTTP client:

Http client is a program, which is capable of sending and recieving http-requests More on http on RFC

Requirements:

• Python 3.7+
• progress

Install:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

python main.py http(s)//{host} [args] python main.py -h

Usage examples:

• Preform a simple GET request to the address and use console as output: python main.py https://example.com
• Use file as output python main.py https://example.com -o test.html
• Send custom POST request python main.py https://api.somethig.com -m POST -h Content-Language=ru -b login=user,password=1234

Under the hood:

Basically sending an HTTP request and getting the HTTP response goes like that:

1. Get user arguments: address, method, headers, body
2. Compile a request from this arguments
3. Create a python socket from the request and arguments
4. Get the response from socket.recv
5. Serve the response to the user via console or file

For every number there are a module or a class that does the work.

1. Setup argparse module in main.py, I use some constants from help.py. Process arguments in form of dict in client.py
2. Compile HTTP request in request.py module
3. Use fetch.py to create a python socket
4. Send python socket to the response.py where it gets processed
5. Serve the respone using io_hanlder.py

There are also:

• socket_extensions.py — handles some additional methods to the socket class, they help me recieve the data: read_line and read_section
• address.py — handles some logic, that is connected with http address processing