Module network

Determine the IP address given the interface name

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439094 (c) Paul Cannon Uses the Linux SIOCGIFADDR ioctl to find the IP address associated with a network interface, given the name of that interface, e.g. "eth0". The address is returned as a string containing a dotted quad.

Parameters:

• ifname (string) - interface name

Returns: string

ip address in the interface specified

Return a list of the active network interfaces

Default route of /proc/net/route has the destination field set to 00000000

Returns: list

active network interfaces

Returns a HTTPResponse object for the given call.

Parameters:

• method (string) - HTTP method (NOTIFY, POST, etc...)
• url (string) - receiver URL
• body (string) - body of the message
• headers (dictionary) - additional headers

Fetches an URL into a file or returns a file descriptor. If attempts and interval are not specified, they get their values from brisa.url_fetch_attempts and brisa.url_fetch_attempts_interval.

Parameters:

• url (string) - URL to be fetched
• filename (string) - if specified fetch result gets written on this path
• attempts (integer) - number of attempts
• interval (float) - interval between attempts in seconds

Converts an arbitrary string to byte string in UTF-8. On failure returns the given string.

Parameters:

• text (string) - string to be converted

Parses XML data into an ElementTree.

Parameters:

• data (string) - raw XML data

Returns: ElementTree

Parses HTTP response data into a tuple in the form (cmd, headers).

Parameters:

• data (string) - HTTP response data

Returns: tuple

(cmd, headers) for the given data

Parse a URL into 6 components.

Parameters:

• url (string) - scheme://netloc/path;params?query#fragment

Returns: tuple

a 6-tuple: (scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment). Note that we don't break the components up in smaller bits (e.g. netloc is a single string) and we don't expand % escapes.