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

there's a really simple way, involving a handler for urllib2, which you can find here: http://pythonquirks.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/asynchronous-http-request.html

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
import threading

class MyHandler(urllib2.HTTPHandler):
    def http_response(self, req, response):
        print "url: %s" % (response.geturl(),)
        print "info: %s" % (response.info(),)
        for l in response:
            print l
        return response

o = urllib2.build_opener(MyHandler())
t = threading.Thread(target=o.open, args=('http://www.google.com/',))
t.start()
print "I'm asynchronous!"

t.join()

print "I've ended!"