CGI Proxy

Simple CGI HTTP Proxy.

• Sets the X-Forwarded-For header with the client IP address;
• Sets the User-Agent header with the client' User-Agent string;
• Decodes gzip-ed content;
• Prints all errors to stderr;
• Uses urllib2 for Python 2 and urllib.request for Python 3.

Installation

Install from PyPI using pip:

$ pip install cgiproxy

Methods

do_get(url, headers=None)

Performs GET request.

Arguments:

• url - The request URL as str.
• headers - Optional HTTP request headers as dict.

Returns:

• A tuple of (content, status_code, response_headers)

do_head(url, headers=None)

Performs HEAD request.

Arguments:

• url - The request URL as str.
• headers - Optional HTTP request headers as dict.

Returns:

• A tuple of (content='', status_code, response_headers)

do_post(url, data=None, headers=None)

Performs POST request. Converts query to POST params if data is None.

Arguments:

• url - The request URL as str.
• data - Optional HTTP POST data as URL-encoded str.
• headers - Optional HTTP request headers as dict.

Returns:

• A tuple of (content, status_code, response_headers)

get_http_status(url, headers=None)

Gets HTTP status code.

Arguments:

• url - The request URL as str.
• headers - Optional HTTP request headers as dict.

Returns:

• An HTTP status code.

get_response_headers(url, headers=None)

Gets HTTP response headers.

Arguments:

• url - The request URL as str.
• headers - Optional HTTP request headers as dict.

Returns:

• An HTTP response headers as dict.

Examples

import cgiproxy

status = cgiproxy.get_http_status('https://www.pageportrait.com/')
print(200 == status)

headers = cgiproxy.get_response_headers('https://komito.net/')
print(headers.get('content-type'))

content, status, headers = cgiproxy.do_head('https://www.dtm.io/')
print('' == content)
print(200 == status)
print(headers.get('content-type'))

content, status, headers = cgiproxy.do_get('https://www.dtm.io/', headers={
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Darwin/18.2.0) cgiproxy/18.12',
    'X-Custom-Header': 'value'
})
print('' != content)
print(200 == status)
print(headers.get('content-type'))

content, status, headers = cgiproxy.do_post('https://example.com/', data='aaa%3Dbbb%26ccc%3Dddd')
print('' != content)
print(200 == status)
print(headers.get('content-type'))