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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _request_host(self):
 """Request host info from the server."""

        urlstr = 'https://%s/xmldata?item=all' % (self.host)
        kwargs = {}
        if self.cacert is not None:
            kwargs['verify'] = self.cacert
        else:
            kwargs['verify'] = False
        try:
            response = requests.get(urlstr, **kwargs)
            response.raise_for_status()
        except Exception as e:
            raise IloConnectionError(e)

        return response.text