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CURL alternative in Python
I'm trying to write a python snippet that returns a JSON response. With curl it works and look like this:
curl -H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '' http://example.com/postservice.get_notes
How could I write code in python that returns a JSON object as the curl command does?
To exactly mimic this you'll need pycurl.
import pycurl
import StringIO
buf = StringIO.StringIO()
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(c.URL, 'http://example.com/postservice.get_notes')
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, buf.write)
c.setopt(c.HTTPHEADER, ['Accept-Charset: UTF-8'])
c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, '')
c.perform()
json = buf.getvalue()
buf.close()
Note here content-type: application/json is not a valid request header. So it's not needed.
