As I mentioned in one of my previous post, I started with learning Python.

Here is one of the first scripts I wrote. It grabs the HTTP Response header. Great thing is that it’s possible to do this with only 7 lines of code.

Script code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2
import sys
url = raw_input("Full url:")
url.rstrip()
header = urllib2.urlopen(url).info()
print(str(header))

Example usage:

$>python headers.py

$>Full url: http://www.jovicailic.org

As a result, you should get something like:

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:35:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimi
ted/1.4
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Cache-Control: max-age=3, must-revalidate
WP-Super-Cache: Served supercache file from PHP
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

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