Script to get HTTP Headers

The below script uses urllib2 to connect to the given URL(s) then prints out the HTTP headers.

http-server-header.py

#:/bin/python
import urllib2, sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
	print "Please feed me a URL...\n\n<3\n"
	sys.exit(0)

for url in sys.argv[1:]:
	r = urllib2.urlopen(url)
	print 'URL: ' + url + '\n' + str(r.info())

An example of it working is shown below. From a “security through obscurity” view, you’d want to conceal your HTTP server information.

$ python ~/http-server-header.py http://nationpigeon.com
	URL: http://nationpigeon.com
	Server: nginx/1.2.1
	Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 01:10:19 GMT
	Content-Type: text/html
	Content-Length: 650
	Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:46:57 GMT
	Connection: close
	Accept-Ranges: bytes

2 Aug 2013 | Tags ( Python HTTP HTTP Headers )