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ark
ark

Reputation: 849

Specifying the body content in a post using requests(python)

I have been using fiddler to inspect an http post that an application makes and then trying to replicate that post using requests in python.

The link I am posting to: http://www.example.com/ws/for/250/buy

Now in fiddler I can clearly see the headers which are easy to replicate using requests. However when I look in textview on fiddler I see this :

tuples=4,421&flows=undefined

To replicate that I think I need to use the data parameter which I found on the docs, however I am not sure how to write this in python? As in do I do it as a dictionary and split it up according to the & sign, or do i have to specify it a a string, etc?

My current code

url = 'http://www.example.com/ws/for/250/buy'
headers = {
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
    'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1003.1 Safari/535.19 Awesomium/1.7.1',
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate',
    'Accept-Language': 'en',
    'Accept-Charset': 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
    }
r6 = requests.post(url, headers = headers, verify = False)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (2)

Ian Stapleton Cordasco
Ian Stapleton Cordasco

Reputation: 28717

Something like

url = 'http://www.example.com/ws/for/250/buy'
headers = {
    'Connection': 'keep-alive',
    'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1003.1 Safari/535.19 Awesomium/1.7.1',
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate',
    'Accept-Language': 'en',
    'Accept-Charset': 'iso-8859-1,*,utf-8',
    }
r6 = requests.post(url, headers=headers, verify=False, data={'tuples': '4,421', 'flows': 'undefined'})

Should work

Upvotes: 1

Lukasa
Lukasa

Reputation: 15518

You provide a dictionary to the data argument:

r = requests.post(url, data={'tuples': '4,421', 'flows': 'undefined'})

Upvotes: 0

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