how to add header and payload info in python http.client methods

Question

Need help for http.client library for doing a PUT request, like to know if there is a way to add header info and payload in the PUT request, I see documentation says as below, is there a way to embed header and payload info in the BODY? If so, could you please show an example.

import http.client

BODY = "***filecontents***"
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("localhost", 8080)
conn.request("PUT", "/file", BODY)

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 04 '17 at 16:47

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You can add header info as a dict on 4 arguments. As far as know is not possible embed in the BODY.

import http.client
BODY = "***filecontents***"
conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1", 5000)
conn.connect()
conn.request("PUT", "/file", BODY, {"someheadername":"someheadervalues",                  
"someotherheadername":"someotherheadervalues"})

answered Jan 04 '17 at 16:47

Quentin Rouland

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Thanks rouland for your answer, i was getting 500 internal error due to my mistake in payload content, thanks for your answer that conn.request is overloaded with extram params for payload and headers – Sandeep Shyam Jan 05 '17 at 12:04

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '17 at 13:11

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The command:

conn.request("PUT", "/file", BODY)

Is overloaded as below as well, so its pretty straight forward :)

conn.request("PUT", "url", payload, headers)

edited Jan 05 '17 at 13:11

Yaron

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answered Jan 05 '17 at 12:06

Sandeep Shyam

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how to add header and payload info in python http.client methods

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