21.11. http — HTTP modules

Source code: Lib/http/__init__.py

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http is a package that collects several modules for working with the HyperText Transfer Protocol:

• http.client is a low-level HTTP protocol client; for high-level URL opening use urllib.request
• http.server contains basic HTTP server classes based on socketserver
• http.cookies has utilities for implementing state management with cookies
• http.cookiejar provides persistence of cookies

http is also a module that defines a number of HTTP status codes and associated messages through the http.HTTPStatus enum:

class http.HTTPStatus

New in version 3.5.

A subclass of enum.IntEnum that defines a set of HTTP status codes, reason phrases and long descriptions written in English.

Usage:

>>> from http import HTTPStatus
>>> HTTPStatus.OK
<HTTPStatus.OK: 200>
>>> HTTPStatus.OK == 200
True
>>> http.HTTPStatus.OK.value
200
>>> HTTPStatus.OK.phrase
'OK'
>>> HTTPStatus.OK.description
'Request fulfilled, document follows'
>>> list(HTTPStatus)
[<HTTPStatus.CONTINUE: 100>, <HTTPStatus.SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS: 101>, ...]

21.11.1. HTTP status codes

Supported, IANA-registered status codes available in http.HTTPStatus are:

Code	Enum Name	Details
100	CONTINUE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.2.1
101	SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.2.2
102	PROCESSING	WebDAV RFC 2518, Section 10.1
200	OK	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.1
201	CREATED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.2
202	ACCEPTED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.3
203	NON_AUTHORITATIVE_INFORMATION	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.4
204	NO_CONTENT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.5
205	RESET_CONTENT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.3.6
206	PARTIAL_CONTENT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7233, Section 4.1
207	MULTI_STATUS	WebDAV RFC 4918, Section 11.1
208	ALREADY_REPORTED	WebDAV Binding Extensions RFC 5842, Section 7.1 (Experimental)
226	IM_USED	Delta Encoding in HTTP RFC 3229, Section 10.4.1
300	MULTIPLE_CHOICES	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.1
301	MOVED_PERMANENTLY	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.2
302	FOUND	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.3
303	SEE_OTHER	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.4
304	NOT_MODIFIED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7232, Section 4.1
305	USE_PROXY	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.5
307	TEMPORARY_REDIRECT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.4.7
308	PERMANENT_REDIRECT	Permanent Redirect RFC 7238, Section 3 (Experimental)
400	BAD_REQUEST	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.1
401	UNAUTHORIZED	HTTP/1.1 Authentication RFC 7235, Section 3.1
402	PAYMENT_REQUIRED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.2
403	FORBIDDEN	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.3
404	NOT_FOUND	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.4
405	METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.5
406	NOT_ACCEPTABLE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.6
407	PROXY_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED	HTTP/1.1 Authentication RFC 7235, Section 3.2
408	REQUEST_TIMEOUT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.7
409	CONFLICT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.8
410	GONE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.9
411	LENGTH_REQUIRED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.10
412	PRECONDITION_FAILED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7232, Section 4.2
413	REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.11
414	REQUEST_URI_TOO_LONG	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.12
415	UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.13
416	REQUEST_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE	HTTP/1.1 Range Requests RFC 7233, Section 4.4
417	EXPECTATION_FAILED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.14
422	UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY	WebDAV RFC 4918, Section 11.2
423	LOCKED	WebDAV RFC 4918, Section 11.3
424	FAILED_DEPENDENCY	WebDAV RFC 4918, Section 11.4
426	UPGRADE_REQUIRED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.5.15
428	PRECONDITION_REQUIRED	Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585
429	TOO_MANY_REQUESTS	Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585
431	REQUEST_HEADER_FIELDS_TOO_LARGE	Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585
500	INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.1
501	NOT_IMPLEMENTED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.2
502	BAD_GATEWAY	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.3
503	SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.4
504	GATEWAY_TIMEOUT	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.5
505	HTTP_VERSION_NOT_SUPPORTED	HTTP/1.1 RFC 7231, Section 6.6.6
506	VARIANT_ALSO_NEGOTIATES	Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP RFC 2295, Section 8.1 (Experimental)
507	INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE	WebDAV RFC 4918, Section 11.5
508	LOOP_DETECTED	WebDAV Binding Extensions RFC 5842, Section 7.2 (Experimental)
510	NOT_EXTENDED	An HTTP Extension Framework RFC 2774, Section 7 (Experimental)
511	NETWORK_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED	Additional HTTP Status Codes RFC 6585, Section 6

In order to preserve backwards compatibility, enum values are also present in the http.client module in the form of constants. The enum name is equal to the constant name (i.e. http.HTTPStatus.OK is also available as http.client.OK).