Jul
22
Short post to remind myself how to do HTTP requests using python, really easy stuff that I quickly forget.
Straight forward example using httplib and urllib from python. In the example I just perform some kind of login request retrieve the session id and then other request sending XML data using POST.
Code! Feel free to send improvements
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import httplib, urllib
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import re
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params = urllib.urlencode({‘q’: ‘login’, ‘email’: ‘juasjuas@lol.com’, ‘pwd’: ‘lala’})
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conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("my.lolizator.com:80")
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conn.request("GET", "/cmd.php?"+params)
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response = conn.getresponse()
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print response.status, response.reason
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#data = response.read()
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#print data
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cookies = response.getheader("set-cookie")
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m = re.search(‘.*PHPSESSID=([a-zA-Z0-9]+);.*’, cookies)
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session = m.group(1)
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print "session %s" % session
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XML=‘<tag1 name="testgroup"><tag2 id="12" type="3"><tag3 id="1">aaa</tag3></tag2></tag1>’
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params = urllib.urlencode({‘q’: ’set’})
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headers = { "Cookie": "PHPSESSID=" + session, "Content-type": "text/xml",
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"Content-Length": "%d" % len(XML)}
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conn.request("POST", "/cmd.php?"+params, "", headers)
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conn.send(XML)
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response = conn.getresponse()
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print response.status, response.reason
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print response.read()
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conn.close()
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