Package cherrypy :: Package lib :: Module http :: Class HeaderMap

Class HeaderMap

     object --+        
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           dict --+    
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CaseInsensitiveDict --+
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                     HeaderMap

A dict subclass for HTTP request and response headers.

Each key is changed on entry to str(key).title(). This allows headers to be case-insensitive and avoid duplicates.

Values are header values (decoded according to RFC 2047 if necessary).

Instance Methods

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elements(self, key)
Return a list of HeaderElements for the given header (or None).

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output(self, protocol=(1, 1))
Transform self into a list of (name, value) tuples. source code

Inherited from CaseInsensitiveDict: __contains__, __delitem__, __getitem__, __setitem__, get, has_key, pop, setdefault, update

Inherited from dict: __cmp__, __eq__, __ge__, __getattribute__, __gt__, __hash__, __init__, __iter__, __le__, __len__, __lt__, __ne__, __new__, __repr__, clear, copy, items, iteritems, iterkeys, itervalues, keys, popitem, values

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __setattr__, __str__

Class Methods

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Inherited from CaseInsensitiveDict: fromkeys

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__