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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(self, method, url, body=None):
 """ Send an HTTP request to the remote server. :Args: - method - A string for the HTTP method to send the request with. - url - A string for the URL to send the request to. - body - A string for request body. Ignored unless method is POST or PUT. :Returns: A dictionary with the server's parsed JSON response. """

        LOGGER.debug('%s %s %s' % (method, url, body))

        parsed_url = parse.urlparse(url)
        headers = self.get_remote_connection_headers(parsed_url, self.keep_alive)
        resp = None
        if body and method != 'POST' and method != 'PUT':
            body = None

        if self.keep_alive:
            resp = self._conn.request(method, url, body=body, headers=headers)

            statuscode = resp.status
        else:
            http = urllib3.PoolManager(timeout=self._timeout)
            resp = http.request(method, url, body=body, headers=headers)

            statuscode = resp.status
            if not hasattr(resp, 'getheader'):
                if hasattr(resp.headers, 'getheader'):
                    resp.getheader = lambda x: resp.headers.getheader(x)
                elif hasattr(resp.headers, 'get'):
                    resp.getheader = lambda x: resp.headers.get(x)

        data = resp.data.decode('UTF-8')
        try:
            if 300 <= statuscode < 304:
                return self._request('GET', resp.getheader('location'))
            if 399 < statuscode <= 500:
                return {'status': statuscode, 'value': data}
            content_type = []
            if resp.getheader('Content-Type') is not None:
                content_type = resp.getheader('Content-Type').split(';')
            if not any([x.startswith('image/png') for x in content_type]):

                try:
                    data = utils.load_json(data.strip())
                except ValueError:
                    if 199 < statuscode < 300:
                        status = ErrorCode.SUCCESS
                    else:
                        status = ErrorCode.UNKNOWN_ERROR
                    return {'status': status, 'value': data.strip()}

                # Some of the drivers incorrectly return a response
                # with no 'value' field when they should return null.
                if 'value' not in data:
                    data['value'] = None
                return data
            else:
                data = {'status': 0, 'value': data}
                return data
        finally:
            LOGGER.debug("Finished Request")
            resp.close()