September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
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Chapter 4: HTTP Programming
- Which module is the easiest to use since it is designed to facilitate requests to a REST API?
The requests module.
- How is a POST request made by passing a dictionary-type data structure that would be sent in the body of the request?
response = requests.post(url, data=data)
- What is the correct way to make a POST request through a proxy server and modify the information of the headers at the same time?
requests.post(url,headers=headers,proxies=proxy)
- What data structure is necessary to mount if we need to send a request with requests through a proxy?
The dictionary data structure; for example, proxy = {“protocol”:”ip:port”}.
- How do we obtain the code of an HTTP request returned by the server if, ...