title: how to do http get with django
body: <p>This should be one of the simplest things, but I can't find how to do it in the documentation.  I have found how to do it python lib2, but I would like to do it with django to get back a status code, content, etc.</p>
  
  <p>Something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>response = httpget('http://my-ulr.com')
  print response.status_code
  </code></pre>