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Hektor
Hektor

Reputation: 105

What does "content-type" mean in headers of python requests library and if the value is text/html;charset=UTF-8?

I want to do some operations with response from python requests library. After I use below function;

response = requests.get(f'{AUTHORIZE_URL}?client_id={CLIENT_ID}&response_type=code&state={STATE}&redirect_uri={REDIRECT_URI}')

I need to get an URL something like this in return;

http://127.0.0.1:8000/products/auth/?state=2b33fdd45jbevd6nam&code=MGY1MTMyNWY0YjQ0MzEwNmMxMjY2ZjcwMWE2MWY5ZDE5MzJlMjA1YjdkNWExNGRhYjIzOGI5NzQ5OWZkNTA5NA

While doing it, it will be easier to use JSON in order to get state and code values from URL but I cannot use it because I think the content type does not allow this.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5285

Answers (1)

BJT
BJT

Reputation: 658

See this for Content-Type explanation: Content-Type

In short the "content-type" in the headers of response got by using requests.get tells you what kind of the content server did send, in your case you'we got a response in the form of the HTML (like .html document) and you can read that response with response.text, if the "content-type" is "application/json" then you can read it as JSON like this response.json().

I see that you use some local server, your local server should send in headers "Content-Type": "application/json" and then you should be able to read JSON from response like this (you need to send JSON not hmtl or text from server): 

targetURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/products/auth/?state=2b33fdd45jbevd6nam&code=MGY1MTMyNWY0YjQ0MzEwNmMxMjY2ZjcwMWE2MWY5ZDE5MzJlMjA1YjdkNWExNGRhYjIzOGI5NzQ5OWZkNTA5NA'
response.get(targetURL).json()

Upvotes: 1

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