Transforming curl command into Python pycurl or requests

Question

Trying to use this curl command, in Python:

curl -k -X POST --data "action=login&username=user&password=pass" https://localhost:8443

I already tried using pycurl as the following:

import pycurl
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, "https://localhost:8443")
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
#tried this too
#c.setopt(pycurl.USERPWD, 'user:pass')
c.setopt(c.HTTPHEADER,"action=login&username=user&password=pass" )
c.setopt(c.VERBOSE, True)
c.perform()

I also tried it in requests:

import requests


data = 'action=login&username=user&password=pass'

requests.post('https://localhost:8443', data=data)

but it didn't work. Don't know what I'm missing, any suggestions?

Danny · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-23 21:39:29Z

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import requests


data = {'action': 'login', 'username': 'user', 'password': 'pass'}

requests.post('https://localhost:8443', data=data)

answered May 23, 2016 at 21:39

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tkyass Over a year ago

thanks @Danny and @AyushShanker for your answers! I already tried them before and I keep getting

requests.exceptions.SSLError: bad handshake: Error([('SSL routines', 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')],)

any ideas?

Danny Over a year ago

well you are using https but in your curl request you used the -k option which according to the curl --help: -k, --insecure Allow connections to SSL sites without certs (H) so in that case to 100% simulate your call you have to add verify=False (like so: requests.post('https://localhost:8443', data=data, verify=False)) to skip the verification of the ssl certificate and not get that error... but then the use of https is kinda pointless.... innit? :)

tkyass Over a year ago

Thanks Danny it worked, I used

data = {'action': 'login', 'username': 'user', 'password': 'pass'} requests.post('https://localhost:8443', data=data, verify=False)

Ayush · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-23 21:29:48Z

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here is requests translation

>>> data = 'action=login&username=user&password=pass'
>>> requests.post('https://localhost:8443', data=data)

answered May 23, 2016 at 21:29

Ayush

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