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user1946337
user1946337

Reputation: 151

Multipart POST using python requests

Im making a multipart POST using the python package requests. Im using xlrd to change some values in an Excel file save it then send that up in a multipart POST. This working fine when I run it locally on my mac but when I put the code on a remote machine and make the same request the body content type is blank where as locally the body content type is application/vnd.ms-excel. So my question is, is there a way enforce the content type using python requests so that in this case the body content type is application/vnd.ms-excel. Sorry cant post up any code as I don't have it on this machine.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3412

Answers (2)

Lukasa
Lukasa

Reputation: 15518

The files parameter accepts a dictionary of keys to tuples, with the following form:

files = {'name': (<filename>, <file object>, <content type>, <per-part headers>)}

In your specific case, you could write this:

files = {'file': ('filename.xls', open('filename.xls'), 'application/vnd.ms-excel', {})}

That should work fine.

Upvotes: 10

Reshad user2701173
Reshad user2701173

Reputation: 477

I believe you can use the headers parameter, e.g

requests.post(url, data=my_data, headers={"Content-type": "application/vnd.ms-excel"})

Upvotes: 0

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