Small Python script to fetch/display HTTP response headers from web server

get_headers.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

# Purpose: Look at HTTP Response headers from requested server.
#  Credit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/843392/python-get-http-headers-from-urllib-call

import httplib
from pprint import pprint as ppr
import sys


HTTP_SERVER= sys.argv[1]

# In most cases, we want the default document.
REQUESTED_PAGE = "/"

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(HTTP_SERVER)
conn.request("HEAD", REQUESTED_PAGE)
res = conn.getresponse()

print "\nStatus and Reason: %s %s" % (res.status, res.reason)

# Example result:
#200 OK

print "\nHTTP Response headers: "
ppr(res.getheaders())

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