How to get output from urllib2 (or something similar) in real time?

Question

Python

I need to see that buffering is disabled.
urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost/upload.php')
if you make a normal curl request from the console - I see a line, wait for a pause and another line.
It is necessary that the script could also understand this, that not 2 lines come at once, but in turn. With a difference of a few seconds. If you add a timeout (to at least see the first line) - crashes by mistake. In general, is there a normal way to run a request in the background mode and see, let's say every second, whether there is an exhaust from the request? Has anyone come across?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you need to ping the url? ...in this case, you don't have to download everything to see if the resource is available or if there is content

import urllib2
request = urllib2.Request('http://localhost:8080')
request.get_method = lambda : 'HEAD'

response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
print response.info() // content-length