import httplib
import timeit




def MakeRequest():

    content = \
        '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>' + '\n' + \
        '<doc>' + '\n' + \
        '   <patate>hello world</patate>' + '\n' + \
        '</doc>' + '\n' + \
        ''
        
    headers = {
        "Content-Type"   : "application/xml; charset=iso-8859-1" ,
        "Content-Length" : len(content)
    }
    
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost:8080")
    conn.request("POST", "/", content, headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    
    data = response.read()
    
    conn.close()
    
    
    
    
if __name__ == '__main__':

    NUMBER = 10

    # Time the execution of the generation.
    t = timeit.Timer(
        'MakeRequest()',
        'from ' + __name__ + ' import MakeRequest\ngc.enable()'
        )
    duration = t.timeit(NUMBER)
    
    print 'Average time : ' + str(duration / NUMBER)