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In addition to the dict methods 62a Response object also has: 63 64<p> 65<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-26' xml:id='l2h-26' class="member">fromcache</tt></b></dt> 66<dd> 67If <code>true</code> the the response was returned from the cache. 68</dl> 69 70<p> 71<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-27' xml:id='l2h-27' class="member">version</tt></b></dt> 72<dd> 73The version of HTTP that the server supports. A value 74of 11 means '1.1'. 75</dl> 76 77<p> 78<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-28' xml:id='l2h-28' class="member">status</tt></b></dt> 79<dd> 80The numerical HTTP status code returned in the response. 81</dl> 82 83<p> 84<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-29' xml:id='l2h-29' class="member">reason</tt></b></dt> 85<dd> 86The human readable component of the HTTP response status code. 87</dl> 88 89<p> 90<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-30' xml:id='l2h-30' class="member">previous</tt></b></dt> 91<dd> 92If redirects are followed then the <tt class="class">Response</tt> object returned 93is just for the very last HTTP request and <var>previous</var> points to 94the previous <tt class="class">Response</tt> object. In this manner they form a chain 95going back through the responses to the very first response. 96Will be <code>None</code> if there are no previous respones. 97</dl> 98 99<p> 100The Response object also populates the header <code>content-location</code>, that 101contains the URI that was ultimately requested. This is useful if 102redirects were encountered, you can determine the ultimate URI that 103the request was sent to. All Response objects contain this key value, 104including <code>previous</code> responses so you can determine the entire 105chain of redirects. 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