I've a web server setup in a separate location and I wanted to access it remotely using HTTP POST request. Can someone please guide me how to proceed with it. I need to use Python which runs the HTTP Post request and modifies the contents of the WEB page
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1docs.python.org/3/howto/urllib2.htmlOpen AI - Opting Out– Open AI - Opting Out2015-06-19 23:42:03 +00:00Commented Jun 19, 2015 at 23:42
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Although probably not particularly practical, you could use a socket. A script on the server which receives the POST request would have to modify the desired web pages content upon receipt.
import socket
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect(('server_domainname.com', 80))
sock.sendall(b'POST / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: server_domainname.com:80\r\n\r\n')
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I think the basic idea is to create a connection, build some headers and data, then go ahead and send that request, get the response from the connection, and then you can then read the response.
connection = httplib.HTTPConnection('<yourServerAddress>:<port>')
headers = ... # Some JSON
data = ... # Some data
connection.request('POST', 'resource/name/goes/here', data, headers)
response = connection.getresponse()
# Let's print what we get back
print response.read()
Please see: Python URLLib / URLLib2 POST
