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Jaroslav Klimčík
Jaroslav Klimčík

Reputation: 4838

Run python script with telnet

I'm using localhost to testing python scripts and I need to test it via telnet, where I'm using PuTTY. I have this python script:

@app.route('/add/', methods=['POST'])
def add_entry():
    db = get_db()
    db.execute('insert into entries (title, text) values (?, ?)',
                 ("value_from_telnet", "another_value_from_telnet"))
    db.commit()
    print("Saved")
    return "Saved"

And now I don't know how to connect to 127.0.0.1/add and how put values into POST method. I can't use connection like this:

$ o 127.0.0.1/add

And if I try this:

$ o 127.0.0.1
$ GET / HTTP/1.0
$ Host: 127.0.0.1/add

then the result is 404 NOT FOUND (via browser it works, but only with static insert values and GET method). So I would like to ask how can I connect to this address 127.0.0.1/add and get values into POST method to use them as insert values to the database? Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 756

Answers (1)

markcial
markcial

Reputation: 9333

use curl instead : curl -v -X POST 'http://<ip.address.of.server>/add' --data "title=foo&text=baz and spam and eggs"

for a post in telnet you need to specify the body of the request like this :

POST /add HTTP/1.1
Content-type:application/x-http-form-urlencoded

title=foo&text=baz+and+spam+and+eggs

If you want to build a query string from a dictionary you need urllib

import urllib

params = {title:"foo",text:"baz and spam and eggs"}

print """
POST /add HTTP/1.1
Content-type:application/x-http-form-urlencoded

""",urlencode(params)

Upvotes: 2

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