Python send POST with header

Question

I try to build a python script who sends a POST with parameters for extracting the result. With fiddler, I have extracted the post request who return that I want. The website uses https only.

POST /Services/GetFromDataBaseVersionned HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mywbsite.fr
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"Content-Length": 129,
"Origin": "https://www.mywbsite.fr",
"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "*/*",
"Referer": "https://www.mywbsite.fr/data/mult.aspx",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch",
"Accept-Language": "fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4",
"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
"Cookie": "ASP.NET_SessionId=j1r1b2a2v2w245; GSFV=FirstVisit=; GSRef=https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CHgQFjAA&url=https://www.mywbsite.fr/&ei=FZq_T4abNcak0QWZ0vnWCg&usg=AFQjCNHq90dwj5RiEfr1Pw; HelpRotatorCookie=HelpLayerWasSeen=0; NSC_GSPOUGS!TTM=ffffffff09f4f58455e445a4a423660; GS=Site=frfr; __utma=1.219229010.1337956889.1337956889.1337958824.2; __utmb=1.1.10.1337958824; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1337956889.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)"

{"isLeftColumn":false,"lID":-1,"userIpCountryCode":"FR","version":null,"languageCode":"fr","siteCode":"frfr","Quotation":"eu"}

And now my python script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
import string
import httplib
import urllib2

host = "www.mywbsite.fr/sport/multiplex.aspx"
    params='"isLeftColumn":"false","liveID":"-1","userIpCountryCode":"FR","version":"null","languageCode":"fr","siteCode":"frfr","Quotation":"eu"'

headers = { Host: www.mywbsite.fr,
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"Content-Length": 129,
"Origin": "https://www.mywbsite.fr",
"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "*/*",
"Referer": "https://www.mywbsite.fr/data/mult.aspx",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch",
"Accept-Language": "fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4",
"Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
"Cookie": "ASP.NET_SessionId=j1r1b2a2v2w245; GSFV=FirstVisit=;     GSRef=https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CHgQFjAA&url=https://www.mywbsite.fr/&ei=FZq_T4abNcak0QWZ0vnWCg&usg=AFQjCNHq90dwj5RiEfr1Pw; HelpRotatorCookie=HelpLayerWasSeen=0; NSC_GSPOUGS!TTM=ffffffff09f4f58455e445a4a423660; GS=Site=frfr; __utma=1.219229010.1337956889.1337956889.1337958824.2; __utmb=1.1.10.1337958824; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1337956889.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)"

}

url = "/Services/GetFromDataBaseVersionned"

# POST the request
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host,port=443)
conn.request("POST",url,params,headers)
response = conn.getresponse()

data = response.read()
print data

But when I run my script, I have this error:

socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Solution 1

Thanks a lot for your link to the requests module. It's just perfect. Below the solution to my problem.

import requests
import json

url = 'https://www.mywbsite.fr/Services/GetFromDataBaseVersionned'
payload = {
    "Host": "www.mywbsite.fr",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
    "Content-Length": 129,
    "Origin": "https://www.mywbsite.fr",
    "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Referer": "https://www.mywbsite.fr/data/mult.aspx",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch",
    "Accept-Language": "fr-FR,fr;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4",
    "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
    "Cookie": "ASP.NET_SessionId=j1r1b2a2v2w245; GSFV=FirstVisit=; GSRef=https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CHgQFjAA&url=https://www.mywbsite.fr/&ei=FZq_T4abNcak0QWZ0vnWCg&usg=AFQjCNHq90dwj5RiEfr1Pw; HelpRotatorCookie=HelpLayerWasSeen=0; NSC_GSPOUGS!TTM=ffffffff09f4f58455e445a4a423660; GS=Site=frfr; __utma=1.219229010.1337956889.1337956889.1337958824.2; __utmb=1.1.10.1337958824; __utmc=1; __utmz=1.1337956889.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)"
}
# Adding empty header as parameters are being sent in payload
headers = {}
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
print(r.content)

Solution 2

If we want to add custom HTTP headers to a POST request, we must pass them through a dictionary to the headers parameter.

Here is an example with a non-empty body and headers:

import requests
import json

url = 'https://somedomain.com'
body = {'name': 'Maryja'}
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}

r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(body), headers=headers)

Source

Solution 3

To make POST request instead of GET request using urllib2, you need to specify empty data, for example:

import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request("http://am.domain.com:8080/openam/json/realms/root/authenticate?authIndexType=Module&authIndexValue=LDAP")
req.add_header('X-OpenAM-Username', 'demo')
req.add_data('')
r = urllib2.urlopen(req)

Comments

[ThiefMaster]

There is no good reason to speak HTTP manually. Use urllib or even better, requests.

[Nitanshu]

Refer this answer for better explanation. stackoverflow.com/a/51124572/7384392

[Thiago]

Why are you sending the header as the data of the request and why that works?

[Antoine Bolvy]

FYI you should NOT manually send headers like this. It's request's job. The maximum you should have to send is the user agent and custom headers.

[py_ios_dev]

what does json.dumps do?

[Rohit-Pandey]

can we send headers using post in requests python ?

[simhumileco]

Yes, of course, @Rohit-Pandey. You can look above or here: stackoverflow.com/a/54493776/4217744

[Engin Yapici]

You don't need json.dumps

[Willy satrio nugroho]

@Engin Yapici Usually we Don't need to dump our data as json but in some special case we need it. Such as sending post request in FASTAPI, It's requires to dump our data as json.

[elPastor]

@Willysatrionugroho - agreed. I was trying to pass a payload without json.dumps() and it failed, got very frustrated. Found this answer, used json.dumps() and the API works like a charm.

[slayer]

@AntoineBolvy Interesting information. Can you provide more detail or a specific resource to read about that? I can't find any. Thankful in advance.

[slayer]

@py_ios_dev It converts Python objects into JSON format data.

[Ahmed Yossef]

This reply is correct, worked for me using body to post specific keys that are supported by the server