What is the difference between Python's httplib and urllib2? [duplicate]

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I am just curious when I would want to use httplib over urllib2 and vice versa.

Answer 1

Basically - httplib is lower level, while urllib is high-level. Use urllib2 whenever you just need to do something basic, like read the contents of a web site. Use httplib when you need to do something more crazy (hopefully rarely).

Answer 2

You may wanna give python-requests a look instead of urllib2 if you want to do some higher level HTTP code. httplib is rarely used directly.