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Brinley
Brinley

Reputation: 721

Python fills white spaces in POST data with '+'

I am using Python's requests module to post some data to my company's SharePoint site:

response = requests.post("https//my-sharepoint-site.com", 
                          data={"myPost": "this is a test"},
                          auth=HttpNtlmAuth("\\MY_USER_NAME", MY_PASS))

The resulting post on my company's sharepoint site looks like:

myPost=this+is+a+test

How do I 1) remove "myPost=" and 2) stop the filling of white space with '+' ?

Note: I do not have access to the company's server-side application logic.

Another note: curl does not encode white spaces with '+'. The result of:

curl –f –v --ntlm –u MY_USER_NAME --data “this is a test” https://my-sharepoint-site.com

is: 

this is a test

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1923

Answers (1)

Daniel Pryden
Daniel Pryden

Reputation: 60987

You're passing a dict as the data parameter, which means the dict is interpreted as key-value pairs to be encoded as application/x-url-encoded. URL encoding (such as is used for GET requests) substitutes + characters instead of %20 because that is the behavior of most browsers.

If you want to pass a POST body literally, you need to encode it into bytes yourself.

In your case, simply passing data="this is a test".encode("utf-8") should give you the behavior you want.

Upvotes: 1

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