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+# Copyright
+
+# For urllib2 information, see
+#   urllib2, from urllib2 - The Missing Manual
+#   http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml
+# 
+# A dictionary of response codes is available in
+#   httplib.responses
+# but it is slow to load.
+
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+from libbe import TESTING
+
+if TESTING:
+    import unittest
+
+
+HTTP_OK = 200
+HTTP_FOUND = 302
+HTTP_TEMP_REDIRECT = 307
+HTTP_USER_ERROR = 418
+"""Status returned to indicate exceptions on the server side.
+
+A BE-specific extension to the HTTP/1.1 protocol (See `RFC 2616`_).
+
+.. _RFC 2616: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec6.html#sec6.1.1
+"""
+
+HTTP_VALID = [HTTP_OK, HTTP_FOUND, HTTP_TEMP_REDIRECT, HTTP_USER_ERROR]
+
+
+USER_AGENT = 'BE-agent'
+
+
+class HTTPError (Exception):
+    def __init__(self, error=None, url=None, msg=None):
+        Exception.__init__(self, msg)
+        self.url = url
+        self.error = error
+        self.msg = msg
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        if self.msg is None:
+            if self.error is None:
+                return 'Unknown HTTP error: {}'.format(self.url)
+            return str(self.error)
+        return self.msg
+
+
+def get_post_url(url, get=True, data_dict=None, headers=[], agent=None):
+    """Execute a GET or POST transaction.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    url : str
+      The base URL (query portion added internally, if necessary).
+    get : bool
+      Use GET if True, otherwise use POST.
+    data_dict : dict
+      Data to send, either by URL query (if GET) or by POST (if POST).
+    headers : list
+      Extra HTTP headers to add to the request.
+    agent : str
+      User agent string overriding the BE default.
+    """
+    if data_dict is None:
+        data_dict = {}
+    if agent is None:
+        agent = USER_AGENT
+    if get is True:
+        if data_dict != {}:
+            # encode get parameters in the url
+            param_string = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
+            url = '{}?{}'.format(url, param_string)
+        data = None
+    else:
+        data = urllib.urlencode(data_dict)
+    headers = dict(headers)
+    headers['User-Agent'] = agent
+    req = urllib2.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers)
+    try:
+        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
+        if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
+            msg = ('We failed to connect to the server.\nURL: {}\n'
+                   'Reason: {}').format(url, e.reason)
+        elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
+            msg = ("The server couldn't fulfill the request.\nURL: {}\n"
+                   'Error code: {}').format(url, e.code)
+        raise HTTPError(error=e, url=url, msg=msg)
+    page = response.read()
+    final_url = response.geturl()
+    info = response.info()
+    response.close()
+    return (page, final_url, info)
+
+
+if TESTING:
+    class GetPostUrlTestCase (unittest.TestCase):
+        """Test cases for get_post_url()"""
+        def test_get(self):
+            url = 'http://bugseverywhere.org/'
+            page,final_url,info = get_post_url(url=url)
+            self.failUnless(final_url == url,
+                'Redirect?\n  Expected: "{}"\n  Got:      "{}"'.format(
+                    url, final_url))
+
+        def test_get_redirect(self):
+            url = 'http://physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/be/redirect'
+            expected = 'http://physics.drexel.edu/~wking/'
+            page,final_url,info = get_post_url(url=url)
+            self.failUnless(final_url == expected,
+                'Redirect?\n  Expected: "{}"\n  Got:      "{}"'.format(
+                    expected, final_url))