The HTTP and FTP Protocols
Modules urllib and
urllib2 are most often the handiest ways to access
servers for http, https,
and ftp protocols. The Python standard library
also supplies specific modules to use for these data access
protocols.
The httplib Module
Module
httplib supplies a class
HTTPConnection to connect to an HTTP server.
The ftplib Module
The
ftplib module supplies a class
FTP to connect to an FTP server.
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