[twill] setting HTTP headers

[Titus Brown]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:28:54PM -0800, Shaun Walbridge wrote:
-> Hi list,
-> 
-> I'm currently using twill to build a basic Campfire API, and am quite 
-> happy with its cookie and form handling.  I's also like to set http 
-> headers to my requests, is there an easy way to do this? With urllib2, 
-> it'd be something like:
-> 
-> import urllib2
-> headers = {'X-Requested-With' : 'XMLHttpRequest'}
-> response = opener.open(urllib2.Request(url, data, headers))
-> 
-> Is there any easy way of wrapping twill to do the same thing?

Hi, Shaun,

in the latest development version, you can now use

>> add_extra_header X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
>> show_extra_headers
>> clear_extra_headers

Thanks for the suggestion!

cheers,
--titus

p.s. available at

	http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-latest.tar.gz