requestURL.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib, urllib2
import sys 
#import json  # if you use json.

def requestURL(url, method="GET", params={}, headers={}, proxy=""):
    
    ## IF YOU USE PROXY.
    if proxy:
        proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
        urllib2.install_opener(opener)
    
    # add parameters
    #data = json.dumps(params)      # J S O N
    data = urllib.urlencode(params) # P A R M
    if method == 'GET':
        req = urllib2.Request(url + ('?%s' % data)) # G E T
    else:
        req = urllib2.Request(url, data)          # P O S T
    # add headers
    if headers:
        for h in headers:
            req.add_header(h, headers[h])

    res = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
    #res = res.decode('utf-8')
    return res

url = 'https://example.com/'
method = 'GET'
params = {
    #'q': 'test',
    #'xxx': 'xxx'
}
headers = {
    #'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    #'Cookie': 'lang=ja'
}

requestURL(url, method, params, headers)