Python Requests - Using variables within header and get request

Question

I have two variables that must be injected into a PUT (curl -XPOST equivalent)

• Variable1 (header)

• Variable2 (part of the URL)

  headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer Variable1',
  }
  
  files = [
  ('server', '*'),
  ]
  
  requests.get('https://URL/1/2/3/4/5/Variable2', headers=headers, files=files, verify=False)
  

I'm running into two issues:

1. What is the proper way to include variables into the request
2. Since this is run across HTTPS, how do I validate what is actually included within the request? I'd like to validate this for debugging purposes

Answer 1

1. What is the proper way to include variables into the request

Passing the headers dictionary as the headers argument, as you have it written, is fine. For your url string, I would just join() the base URL to your Variable2, and pass that as an argument.

Here's how I would write this code:

import requests

base_url = 'https://URL/1/2/3/4/5/'
url = ''.join([base_url, Variable2])

headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer Variable1',}
files = [('server', '*'),]

resp = requests.put(url, headers=headers, files=files, verify=False)

2. Since this is run across HTTPS, how do I validate what is actually included within the request? I'd like to validate this for debugging purposes

You can utilize the PreparedRequest object:

from requests import Request, Session

r = Request('PUT', url, headers=headers, files=files)
prepped = r.prepare()

# now, for example, you can print out the url, headers, method...
# whatever you need to validate in your request.
# for example:
# print prepped.url, prepped.headers

# you can also send the request like this...

s = Session()
resp = s.send(prepped)