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Python: What's the difference between httplib2 and urllib2?

I'm trying to implement an OAuth2 authentication server and for the client part i wanted to send a json request to the server (from a Django view) and i found several libraries to do that tho' the most common are httplib2 and urllib2 i was wondering which is the difference between them and which is the best library for this purpose.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: After searching, i found an extremely useful library called Requests and i use this one since then. (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/)

Solution

  • urllib2 handles opening and reading URLs. It also handles extra stuff like storing cookies.

    httplib handles http requests, its what happens behind the curtain when you open a url.

    you can send json request with urllib2 so you should use that. see this.