How to send a HTTP POST with Python 2.7

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I'm trying to send a HTTP POST request with Python. I can get it to work with 3.0, but I couldn't find a good example on 2.7.

hdr = {"content-type": "application/json"} payload= ("<html><body><h1>Sorry it's not Friday yet</h1> </body></html>") r = requests.post("http://my-url/api/Html", json={"HTML": payload}) with open ('c:/temp/a.pdf', 'wb') as f: b64str = json.loads(r.text)['BinaryData'] #base 64 string is in BinaryData attr binStr = binascii.a2b_base64(b64str) #convert base64 string to binary f.write(binStr)

The api takes a json in this format:

{ HTML : "a html string" }

and returns a json in this format:

{ BinaryData: 'base64 encoded string' }

fn. · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-12 20:25:15Z

In Python 2.x it should be like this

import json import httplib body =("<html><body><h1>Sorry it's not Friday yet</h1> </body></html>") payload = {'HTML' : body} hdr = {"content-type": "application/json"} conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('my-url') conn.request('POST', '/api/Html', json.dumps(payload), hdr) response = conn.getresponse() data = response.read() # same as r.text in 3.x

Uri Goren · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-05 21:45:42Z

The standard way is with the urllib2 module

from urllib import urlencode import urllib2 def http_post(url, data): post = urlencode(data) req = urllib2.Request(url, post) response = urllib2.urlopen(req) return response.read()

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