From 9980f4a37f52ab7ba344d5ee7d4269aa51905e90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Pilgrim Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:50:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] typo [h/t dr_root] --- http-web-services.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/http-web-services.html b/http-web-services.html index 369d6db..39a0076 100644 --- a/http-web-services.html +++ b/http-web-services.html @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ mark{display:inline}
  • urllib.request is an abstraction layer built on top of http.client. It provides a standard API for accessing both HTTP and FTP servers, automatically follows HTTP redirects, and handles some common forms of HTTP authentication. -

    So which one should you use? Neither of them. Instead, you should use httplib2, an open source third-party library that implements HTTP more fully than http.client but provides a better abstraction that urllib.request. +

    So which one should you use? Neither of them. Instead, you should use httplib2, an open source third-party library that implements HTTP more fully than http.client but provides a better abstraction than urllib.request.

    To understand why httplib2 is the right choice, you first need to understand HTTP.