shortuser should stop before the first space character.
Examples:
"Foo Bar <foo.bar AT example DOT com>" -> "foo.bar"
(instead of "foo.bar AT example DOT com>" as it was before.)
"Foo Bar" -> "Foo"
#!/usr/bin/env python
__doc__ = """This does HTTP get requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""
import httplib, sys
headers = [h.lower() for h in sys.argv[3:]]
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(sys.argv[1])
conn.request("GET", sys.argv[2])
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
for h in headers:
if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))
print
sys.stdout.write(response.read())