Metacat

    def getRequest(self, queryString):

        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection( self.metacatServer )

        #params = urllib.urlencode( postdata )

        #headers = { "Content-type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", 

        #            "Accept"       : "*/*"}

        # If we have an active session, set the cookie

        #if self.sessionid is not None:

        #    headers['Cookie'] = self.sessionid

        conn.request( "GET", self.metacatUrlPath + queryString )

        response = conn.getresponse()

        # If metacat responds with a new session id,

        # register it with the metacat client instance

        #setcookie = response.getheader("set-cookie", None)

        #if setcookie:

        #    jsid = setcookie.split(';')[0]

        #    if jsid[:11] == "JSESSIONID=":

        #       self.sessionid = jsid

        if response.status == 200:

           content = response.read()

        else:

           print " SERVER DID NOT RETURN 'OK'.... STATUS is " + str(response.status) 

           content = ""

        conn.close()

        return content