Using httplib.HTTPConnection.set_debuglevel() with urllib2

Posted on October 1, 2007, 9:52 pm, by jamiegrove, under python.

I’ve been trying to get the debug level turned on in urllib2 for about an hour and now that it is working I thought I would post what I found…

When using urllib, you can set the debuglevel directly by using something like this:

import urllib, httplib

httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
urllib.urlopen(”http://www.somesite.com”)

However, when using urllib2 you need to create a handler install it for use. The sample below creates the lovely debuglevel handler.

import urllib2
h=urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=1)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(h)

Here’s the original post on mail.python.org

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