duck.http.headers

Module for HTTP headers.

Module Contents

Classes

Headers

Headers class for representing request or response headers.

API

class duck.http.headers.Headers

Bases: dict

Headers class for representing request or response headers.

Initialization

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

__delitem__(key)

__repr__()

__setitem__(key: str, value: str)

__slots__

()

_get_header(header: str, default_value=None) → Optional[str]

Returns a header value of default_value if not found.

delete_header(header: str, failsafe: bool = True)

Deletes a header and if failsafe is True, no error will be raised if header doesn’t exist

get(header: str, default=None)

Returns a header value of default if not found.

parse_from_bytes(data: bytes, delimeter='\r\n')

Load headers from bytes.

Parameters:

delimeter – Delimeter separating the headers.

set_header(header: str, value: str)

Sets a header value.

setdefault(key: str, value: str)

titled_headers()

Returns headers in title format rather than small cased

Example:

• {‘Connection’: ‘close’} rather than {‘connection’: ‘close’}

update(data: dict)

validate_key_value(key: str, value: str)

Validates header key and value pair.