I am trying to send through an image using the following code: This is just a part of my code, I didn't include the headers here but they are set up correctly, with content-type as content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=eBayClAsSiFiEdSpOsTiMaGe
img = "piano.jpg"
f = open(img,'rb')
out = f.read()
files = {'file':out}
p = requests.post("https://ecg-api.gumtree.com.au/api/pictures",headers=headers, data=files)
f.close()
I get a 400 error incorrect multipart/form-data format
How do I send the image properly?
Extra Details:
Network analysis shows the following request been sent:
POST https://ecg-api.gumtree.com.au/api/pictures HTTP/1.1
host: ecg-api.gumtree.com.au
content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=eBayClAsSiFiEdSpOsTiMaGe
authorization: Basic YXV5grehg534
accept: */*
x-ecg-ver: 1.49
x-ecg-ab-test-group: gblios_9069_b;gblios-8982-b
accept-encoding: gzip
x-ecg-udid: 73453-7578p-8657
x-ecg-authorization-user: id="1635662", token="ee56hgjfjdghgjhfj"
accept-language: en-AU
content-length: 219517
user-agent: Gumtree 12.6.0 (iPhone; iOS 13.3; en_AU)
x-ecg-original-machineid: Gk435454-hhttehr
Form data:
file: ����..JFIF.....H.H..��.LExif..MM.*..................�i.........&......�..
I cut off the the formdata part for file as its too long. My headers are written as follows (I have made up the actual auth values here):
idd = "1635662"
token = "ee56hgjfjdghgjhfj"
headers = {
"authority":"ecg-api.gumtree.com.au",
"content-type":"multipart/form-data; boundary=eBayClAsSiFiEdSpOsTiMaGe",
"authorization":"Basic YXV5grehg534",
"accept":"*/*",
"x-ecg-ver":"1.49",
"x-ecg-ab-test-group":"gblios_9069_b;gblios-8982-b",
"accept-encoding":"gzip",
"x-ecg-udid":"73453-7578p-8657",
"x-ecg-authorization-user":f"id={idd}, token={token}",
"accept-language":"en-AU",
"content-length":"219517",
"user-agent":"Gumtree 12.6.0 (iPhone; iOS 13.3; en_AU)",
"x-ecg-original-machineid":"Gk435454-hhttehr"
}
Maybe its the way I have written the headers? I suspect its the way I have written the x-ecg-authorization-user part in headers? Because I realise even putting random values for the token or id gives me the same 400 error incorrect multipart/form-data format
You can try the following code. Don't set content-type in the headers.Let Pyrequests do that for you
files = {'file': (os.path.basename(filename), open(filename, 'rb'), 'application/octet-stream')}
upload_files_url = "url"
headers = {'Authorization': access_token, 'JWTAUTH': jwt}
r2 = requests.post(parcels_files_url, files=files, headers=headers)
I am trying to create simple API for my site. I created the route with flask:
#api.route('/api/rate&message_id=<message_id>&performer=<performer_login>', methods=['POST'])
def api_rate_msg(message_id, performer_login):
print("RATE API ", message_id, ' ', performer_id)
return 400
print(...) function don't execute...
I use flask-socketio to communicate between client and server.
I send json from client and process it with:
#socket.on('rate')
def handle_rate(data):
print(data)
payload = {'message_id':data['message_id'], 'performer':data['performer']}
r = requests.post('/api/rate', params=payload)
print (r.status_code)
Note, that data variable is sending from client and is correct(I've checked it).
print(r.status_code) don't exec too...
Where I'm wrong? Please, sorry for my bad english :(
This api function must increase rate of message, which stored in mongodb, if interesting.
Don't put &message_id=<message_id>&performer=<performer_login> in your route string. Instead, get these arguments from request.args.
Try it:
from flask import request
...
#api.route('/api/rate', methods=['POST'])
def api_rate_msg():
print(request.args)
return ''
I've tested it with httpie:
$ http -v POST :5000/api/rate message_id==123 performer_login==foo
POST /api/rate?message_id=123&performer_login=foo HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Host: localhost:5000
User-Agent: HTTPie/0.9.8
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 13:54:40 GMT
Server: Werkzeug/0.11.11 Python/2.7.13
And from flask's log:
ImmutableMultiDict([('message_id', u'123'), ('performer_login', u'foo')])
127.0.0.1 - - [02/Apr/2017 22:54:40] "POST /api/rate?message_id=123&performer_login=foo HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Remove the below part from your api route
&message_id=<message_id>&performer=<performer_login
This is not required in POST request. It helps in GET requests. API call in request is not matching the route definition and therefore you have the current problem
I am trying to post data to my server from my microcontroller. I need to send raw http data from my controller and this is what I am sending below:
POST /postpage HTTP/1.1
Host: https://example.com
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 18
Content-Type: application/json
{"cage":"abcdefg"}
My server requires JSON encoding and not form encoded request.
For the above request sent, I get an 400 error from the server, HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
However, when I try to reach the post to my server via a python script via my laptop, I am able to get a proper response.
import requests
url='https://example.com'
mycode = 'abcdefg'
def enter():
value = requests.post('url/postpage',
params={'cage': mycode})
print vars(value)
enter()
Can anyone please let me know where I could be going wrong in the raw http data I'm sending above ?
HTTP specifies the separator between headers as a single newline, and requires a double newline before the content:
POST /postpage HTTP/1.1
Host: https://example.com
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 18
Content-Type: application/json
{"cage":"abcdefg"}
If you don’t think you’ve got all of the request right, try seeing what was sent by Python:
response = ...
request = response.request # request is a PreparedRequest.
headers = request.headers
url = request.url
Read the docs for PreparedRequest for more information.
To pass a parameter, use this Python:
REQUEST = 'POST /postpage%s HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nAccept: */*\r\nUser-Agent: python-requests/2.4.3 CPython/2.7.9 Linux/4.4.11-v7+\r\n\r\n';
query = ''
for k, v in params.items():
query += '&' + k + '=' + v # URL-encode here if you want.
if len(query): query = '?' + query[1:]
return REQUEST % query
I'm sure I'm doing something simple wrong, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set the "IsRead" property to true. It's the last step of my process that gets a filtered list of messagesa and stores and processes any attachments.
According to the docs "IsRead" is writable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office%5Coffice365%5CAPi/complex-types-for-mail-contacts-calendar#ResourcesMessage
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office%5Coffice365%5CAPi/mail-rest-operations#MessageoperationsUpdatemessages
I'm using python 2.7 and the requests module:
# once file acquired mark the email as read
params = {'IsRead':'True'}
base_email_url = u'https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/messages/{0}'.format( msgId )
response = requests.patch(base_email_url, params, auth=(email,pwd))
log.debug( response )
The response that comes back is this:
{"error":{"code":"ErrorInvalidRequest","message":"Cannot read the request body."}}
What's the problem with my request?
At first glance it looks OK. I wonder if the Content-Type header isn't being set to "application/json" or something along those lines. Try getting a network trace and verify that the request looks something like:
PATCH https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/Me/Messages('msgid') HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json;odata.metadata=full
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Content-Type: application/json;odata.metadata=full
Host: outlook.office365.com
Content-Length: 24
Expect: 100-continue
Connection: Keep-Alive
{
"IsRead": "true"
}
Well I have an answer for myself and it is indeed a simple matter.
It was a mistake to not fully read how PATCH is different from GET or POST.
In short it's important to make sure your headers are set for the right content-type.
Here is the working code:
# once file acquired mark the email as read
changes = {u'IsRead':u'True'}
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
json_changes = json.dumps(changes)
base_email_url = u'https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/me/messages/{0}'.format( msgId )
response = requests.patch(base_email_url, data=json_changes, auth=__AUTH, headers=headers)
log.debug( response )
While using the requests module, is there any way to print the raw HTTP request?
I don't want just the headers, I want the request line, headers, and content printout. Is it possible to see what ultimately is constructed from HTTP request?
Since v1.2.3 Requests added the PreparedRequest object. As per the documentation "it contains the exact bytes that will be sent to the server".
One can use this to pretty print a request, like so:
import requests
req = requests.Request('POST','http://stackoverflow.com',headers={'X-Custom':'Test'},data='a=1&b=2')
prepared = req.prepare()
def pretty_print_POST(req):
"""
At this point it is completely built and ready
to be fired; it is "prepared".
However pay attention at the formatting used in
this function because it is programmed to be pretty
printed and may differ from the actual request.
"""
print('{}\n{}\r\n{}\r\n\r\n{}'.format(
'-----------START-----------',
req.method + ' ' + req.url,
'\r\n'.join('{}: {}'.format(k, v) for k, v in req.headers.items()),
req.body,
))
pretty_print_POST(prepared)
which produces:
-----------START-----------
POST http://stackoverflow.com/
Content-Length: 7
X-Custom: Test
a=1&b=2
Then you can send the actual request with this:
s = requests.Session()
s.send(prepared)
These links are to the latest documentation available, so they might change in content:
Advanced - Prepared requests and API - Lower level classes
import requests
response = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', data={'key1': 'value1'})
print(response.request.url)
print(response.request.body)
print(response.request.headers)
Response objects have a .request property which is the PreparedRequest object that was sent.
An even better idea is to use the requests_toolbelt library, which can dump out both requests and responses as strings for you to print to the console. It handles all the tricky cases with files and encodings which the above solution does not handle well.
It's as easy as this:
import requests
from requests_toolbelt.utils import dump
resp = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/redirect/5')
data = dump.dump_all(resp)
print(data.decode('utf-8'))
Source: https://toolbelt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dumputils.html
You can simply install it by typing:
pip install requests_toolbelt
Note: this answer is outdated. Newer versions of requests support getting the request content directly, as AntonioHerraizS's answer documents.
It's not possible to get the true raw content of the request out of requests, since it only deals with higher level objects, such as headers and method type. requests uses urllib3 to send requests, but urllib3 also doesn't deal with raw data - it uses httplib. Here's a representative stack trace of a request:
-> r= requests.get("http://google.com")
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py(55)get()
-> return request('get', url, **kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/api.py(44)request()
-> return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py(382)request()
-> resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py(485)send()
-> r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py(324)send()
-> timeout=timeout
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py(478)urlopen()
-> body=body, headers=headers)
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py(285)_make_request()
-> conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py(958)request()
-> self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
Inside the httplib machinery, we can see HTTPConnection._send_request indirectly uses HTTPConnection._send_output, which finally creates the raw request and body (if it exists), and uses HTTPConnection.send to send them separately. send finally reaches the socket.
Since there's no hooks for doing what you want, as a last resort you can monkey patch httplib to get the content. It's a fragile solution, and you may need to adapt it if httplib is changed. If you intend to distribute software using this solution, you may want to consider packaging httplib instead of using the system's, which is easy, since it's a pure python module.
Alas, without further ado, the solution:
import requests
import httplib
def patch_send():
old_send= httplib.HTTPConnection.send
def new_send( self, data ):
print data
return old_send(self, data) #return is not necessary, but never hurts, in case the library is changed
httplib.HTTPConnection.send= new_send
patch_send()
requests.get("http://www.python.org")
which yields the output:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.python.org
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress
Accept: */*
User-Agent: python-requests/2.1.0 CPython/2.7.3 Linux/3.2.0-23-generic-pae
requests supports so called event hooks (as of 2.23 there's actually only response hook). The hook can be used on a request to print full request-response pair's data, including effective URL, headers and bodies, like:
import textwrap
import requests
def print_roundtrip(response, *args, **kwargs):
format_headers = lambda d: '\n'.join(f'{k}: {v}' for k, v in d.items())
print(textwrap.dedent('''
---------------- request ----------------
{req.method} {req.url}
{reqhdrs}
{req.body}
---------------- response ----------------
{res.status_code} {res.reason} {res.url}
{reshdrs}
{res.text}
''').format(
req=response.request,
res=response,
reqhdrs=format_headers(response.request.headers),
reshdrs=format_headers(response.headers),
))
requests.get('https://httpbin.org/', hooks={'response': print_roundtrip})
Running it prints:
---------------- request ----------------
GET https://httpbin.org/
User-Agent: python-requests/2.23.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
None
---------------- response ----------------
200 OK https://httpbin.org/
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 17:16:13 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 9593
Connection: keep-alive
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
...
</html>
You may want to change res.text to res.content if the response is binary.
Here is a code, which makes the same, but with response headers:
import socket
def patch_requests():
old_readline = socket._fileobject.readline
if not hasattr(old_readline, 'patched'):
def new_readline(self, size=-1):
res = old_readline(self, size)
print res,
return res
new_readline.patched = True
socket._fileobject.readline = new_readline
patch_requests()
I spent a lot of time searching for this, so I'm leaving it here, if someone needs.
A fork of #AntonioHerraizS answer (HTTP version missing as stated in comments)
Use this code to get a string representing the raw HTTP packet without sending it:
import requests
def get_raw_request(request):
request = request.prepare() if isinstance(request, requests.Request) else request
headers = '\r\n'.join(f'{k}: {v}' for k, v in request.headers.items())
body = '' if request.body is None else request.body.decode() if isinstance(request.body, bytes) else request.body
return f'{request.method} {request.path_url} HTTP/1.1\r\n{headers}\r\n\r\n{body}'
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Test'}
request = requests.Request('POST', 'https://stackoverflow.com', headers=headers, json={"hello": "world"})
raw_request = get_raw_request(request)
print(raw_request)
Result:
POST / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Test
Content-Length: 18
Content-Type: application/json
{"hello": "world"}
💡 Can also print the request in the response object
r = requests.get('https://stackoverflow.com')
raw_request = get_raw_request(r.request)
print(raw_request)
I use the following function to format requests. It's like #AntonioHerraizS except it will pretty-print JSON objects in the body as well, and it labels all parts of the request.
format_json = functools.partial(json.dumps, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
indent = functools.partial(textwrap.indent, prefix=' ')
def format_prepared_request(req):
"""Pretty-format 'requests.PreparedRequest'
Example:
res = requests.post(...)
print(format_prepared_request(res.request))
req = requests.Request(...)
req = req.prepare()
print(format_prepared_request(res.request))
"""
headers = '\n'.join(f'{k}: {v}' for k, v in req.headers.items())
content_type = req.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
if 'application/json' in content_type:
try:
body = format_json(json.loads(req.body))
except json.JSONDecodeError:
body = req.body
else:
body = req.body
s = textwrap.dedent("""
REQUEST
=======
endpoint: {method} {url}
headers:
{headers}
body:
{body}
=======
""").strip()
s = s.format(
method=req.method,
url=req.url,
headers=indent(headers),
body=indent(body),
)
return s
And I have a similar function to format the response:
def format_response(resp):
"""Pretty-format 'requests.Response'"""
headers = '\n'.join(f'{k}: {v}' for k, v in resp.headers.items())
content_type = resp.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
if 'application/json' in content_type:
try:
body = format_json(resp.json())
except json.JSONDecodeError:
body = resp.text
else:
body = resp.text
s = textwrap.dedent("""
RESPONSE
========
status_code: {status_code}
headers:
{headers}
body:
{body}
========
""").strip()
s = s.format(
status_code=resp.status_code,
headers=indent(headers),
body=indent(body),
)
return s
test_print.py content:
import logging
import pytest
import requests
from requests_toolbelt.utils import dump
def print_raw_http(response):
data = dump.dump_all(response, request_prefix=b'', response_prefix=b'')
return '\n' * 2 + data.decode('utf-8')
#pytest.fixture
def logger():
log = logging.getLogger()
log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
return log
def test_print_response(logger):
session = requests.Session()
response = session.get('http://127.0.0.1:5000/')
assert response.status_code == 300, logger.warning(print_raw_http(response))
hello.py content:
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
#app.route('/')
def hello_world():
return 'Hello, World!'
Run:
$ python -m flask hello.py
$ python -m pytest test_print.py
Stdout:
------------------------------ Captured log call ------------------------------
DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool:connectionpool.py:225 Starting new HTTP connection (1): 127.0.0.1:5000
DEBUG urllib3.connectionpool:connectionpool.py:437 http://127.0.0.1:5000 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 13
WARNING root:test_print_raw_response.py:25
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:5000
User-Agent: python-requests/2.23.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 13
Server: Werkzeug/1.0.1 Python/3.6.8
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:00:54 GMT
Hello, World!