from urllib2 import Request, urlopen
from urllib import urlencode
from urlparse import urljoin


class HTTPClient(object):

    def __init__(self, base_url, user=None, password=None):
        self.base_url = base_url
        self.user = user
        self.password = password

    def authenticate(self):
        return 'not ready yet'

    def send_request(self, url, data=None):
        request = Request(url, data)
        response = urlopen(request)
        return response.read()

    def get(self, url):
        return self.send_request(urljoin(self.base_url, url))

    def post(self, url, data):
        encoded_data = urlencode(data)
        return self.send_request(urljoin(self.base_url, url), encoded_data)