http-protocols

I want to download file in multi thread mode and I have following code here: #!/usr/bin/env python import httplib def main(): url_opt = '/film/0d46e21795209bc18e9530133226cfc3/7f_Naruto.Uragannie.Hroniki.001.seriya.a1.20.06.13.mp4' headers = {} headers['Accept-Language'] = 'en-GB,en-US,en' headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip,deflate,sdch' headers['Accept-Charset'] = 'max-age=0' headers['Cache-Control'] = 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8,*' headers['Cache-Control'] = 'max-age=0' headers['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1)' headers['Connection'] = 'keep-alive' headers['Accept'] = 'text/html

I wrote a servlet in Java and I would like to know if the request to that servlet was executed using HTTP or HTTPS. I thought I can use request.getProtocol() but it returns HTTP/1.1 on both methods. Any ideas? HttpSerlvetRequest.isSecure() is the answer. The ServletContainer is responsible for returning true in the following cases: If the ServletContainer can itself accept requests on https. If there is a LoadBalancer in front of ServletContainer. And , the LoadBlancer has got the request on https and has dispatched the same to the ServletContainer on plain http . In this case, the