Python - Example of urllib2 asynchronous / threaded request using HTTPS

Question

I\'m having a heck of a time getting asynchronous / threaded HTTPS requests to work using Python\'s urllib2.

Does anyone out there have a basic example that implements u

Answer 1

The code below does 7 http requests asynchronously at the same time. It does not use threads, instead it uses asynchronous networking with the twisted library.

from twisted.web import client
from twisted.internet import reactor, defer

urls = [
 'http://www.python.org', 
 'http://stackoverflow.com', 
 'http://www.twistedmatrix.com', 
 'http://www.google.com',
 'http://launchpad.net',
 'http://github.com',
 'http://bitbucket.org',
]

def finish(results):
    for result in results:
        print 'GOT PAGE', len(result), 'bytes'
    reactor.stop()

waiting = [client.getPage(url) for url in urls]
defer.gatherResults(waiting).addCallback(finish)

reactor.run()