Python execute HTTP commands

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To be brief, I've basically found that executing certain strings in the address bar in my browser causes good things to happen for me. For instance: http://myip:myport/?CreateOrder=Create+New+Order creates a new order in my database.

I've used python to set the variables I want passed into that string, but don't know the correct vocab to be able to figure exactly how to get python to execute that string as if it were a browser.

Sorry for being ignorant. I'd appreciate any help

start here docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html

wim
– wim

2011-12-14 23:28:23 +00:00
Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 23:28 — wim
– wim, Commented Dec 14, 2011 at 23:28

Tom Neyland · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14 23:36:35Z

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While I am not sure that I entirely understand the context of your question you can make URL requests in python using the urllib2 module, specifically look at the urlopen function.

Here is an example of how you could make the request you showed:

import urllib2

url_response = urllib2.urlopen('http://myip:myport/?CreateOrder=Create+New+Order')

answered Dec 14, 2011 at 23:36

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Jen Scott Over a year ago

Thanks. I'm just dumb --I knew how to store/open the url like that, but didn't even come to the realization that by doing this, python is indeed executing the command

Acorn · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15 00:06:18Z

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You should check out the Requests module.

import requests

r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get', params={'foo': 'bar'})

print r.content

_{(httpbin.org is a nice service for debugging HTTP requests)}

Result:

{
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get?foo=bar",
  "headers": {
    "Content-Length": "",
    "Accept-Encoding": "identity, deflate, compress, gzip",
    "X-Forwarded-Port": "80",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "User-Agent": "python-requests/0.8.3",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
    "Content-Type": ""
  },
  "args": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "origin": "46.64.26.143"
}

edited Dec 15, 2011 at 0:06

answered Dec 14, 2011 at 23:46

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Sébastien Over a year ago

Nice site you mentioned for inspecting HTTP requests :)

TheGoodUser Over a year ago

Is there any version of this module for windows?

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