I am trying to replicate the following POST request using the requests module in python:
POST /example/asdfas HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------241652170216373
Content-Length: 279
-----------------------------241652170216373
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="value_1"
12345
-----------------------------241652170216373
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="value_2"
67890
-----------------------------241652170216373--
The documentation for requests suggests that the files argument should be used.
When I attempt the following call:
import requests
requests.post('http://example.com/example/asdfas', files={'value_1': '12345',
'value_2': '67890'})
I get the following HTTP request:
'Accept': '*/*',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, compress',
'Content-Length': '264',
'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.2.1 CPython/3.3.2 Windows/7',
'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=273f13699c02429db4eb95c97f757d38'
--273f13699c02429db4eb95c97f757d38
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="value_1"; filename="value_1"
12345
--273f13699c02429db4eb95c97f757d38
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="value_2"; filename="value_2"
67890
--273f13699c02429db4eb95c97f757d38--
I have also tried to use the data argument:
import requests
requests.post('http://example.com/example/asdfas', data={'value_1': '12345',
'value_2': '67890'})
resulting in the following HTTP request:
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'Content-Length': '27',
'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.2.1 CPython/3.3.2 Windows/7',
'Accept': '*/*',
'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, compress'
value_2=67890&value_1=12345
The issue I'm having is that using the files argument results in a call that the server doesn't recognize, presumably due to the unexpected "filename" information sent in the HTTP request. Using the data argument sends the wrong Content-Type header.
The first request is known to be working on the server I wish to send the request to - what is the correct function call to identically replicate the first HTTP request?
Edit:
Sample HTML form to replicate the working request:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="http://example.com/example/asdfas" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="v1">Value 1</label>
<input id="v1" type="text" name="value_1">
<label for="v2">Value 2</label>
<input id="v2" type="text" name="value_2">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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