def test():

    import sys
    import getopt
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'd')
    dl = 0
    for o, a in opts:
        if o == '-d': dl = dl + 1
    host = 'www.python.org'
    selector = '/'
    if args[0:]: host = args[0]
    if args[1:]: selector = args[1]
    h = HTTP()
    h.set_debuglevel(dl)
    h.connect(host)
    h.putrequest('GET', selector)
    h.endheaders()
    status, reason, headers = h.getreply()
    print 'status =', status
    print 'reason =', reason
    print "read", len(h.getfile().read())
    print
    if headers:
        for header in headers.headers: print header.strip()
    print

    # minimal test that code to extract host from url works
    class HTTP11(HTTP):
        _http_vsn = 11
        _http_vsn_str = 'HTTP/1.1'

    h = HTTP11('www.python.org')
    h.putrequest('GET', 'http://www.python.org/~jeremy/')
    h.endheaders()
    h.getreply()
    h.close()

    try:
        import ssl
    except ImportError:
        pass
    else:

        for host, selector in (('sourceforge.net', '/projects/python'),
                               ):
            print "https://%s%s" % (host, selector)
            hs = HTTPS()
            hs.set_debuglevel(dl)
            hs.connect(host)
            hs.putrequest('GET', selector)
            hs.endheaders()
            status, reason, headers = hs.getreply()
            print 'status =', status
            print 'reason =', reason
            print "read", len(hs.getfile().read())
            print
            if headers:
                for header in headers.headers: print header.strip()
            print
Test this module.
dataset/ETHPy150Open deanhiller/databus/webapp/play1.3.x/python/Lib/httplib.py/test