Planning for Week 12

High Level Topic Summary

HTTP in greater depth

POST

Request and Response Headers

requests module

Integrating requests with processing

Encoding

BytesIO and StringIO

Readings for the week

Day	Reading	Reading Questions
Monday	Chapter 20, 20.3, 20.4	None
Tuesday	-
Wednesday	Chapter 21, 21.1 and 21.2	None
Friday	Chapter 21, 21.3 and 21.4	None

Projected Class and Homework

HW	Day Out	Day Due	Contents
HW_4.3	Monday	Wednesday	`requests` exercises and POST
HW_4.4	Wednesday	Friday	encoding and CSV
HW_4.5	Friday	Monday	XML and JSON request processing

Tuesday Problem Day

No Problem Day this week. Instructor volunteering at the polls. Get out the vote.

Progression

The focus of the week is HTTP, deepening our understanding of different types of requests and processing of replies. This involves, on requests, controlling the HTTP method (GET and POST), the values of header key-value pairs, augmenting the resource path with query string key-value pairs and, for POST, including a body that contains information for the request. On response, we need to be able to understand and accommodate encodings, to get meta-information about the response through the headers in the response, and processing the body of the response.