How do I send a POST request as a JSON?
http, json, post, python, url
Solution
If your server is expecting the POST request to be json, then you would need to add a header, and also serialize the data for your request...
Python 2.x
import json
import urllib2
data = {
'ids': [12, 3, 4, 5, 6]
}
req = urllib2.Request('http://example.com/api/posts/create')
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req, json.dumps(data))
Python 3.x
https://stackoverflow.com/a/26876308/496445
If you don't specify the header, it will be the default `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` type.
Problem
``` data = { 'ids': [12, 3, 4, 5, 6 , ...] } urllib2.urlopen("http://abc.example/api/posts/create",urllib.urlencode(data)) ``` I want to send a POST request, but one of the fields should be a list of numbers. How can I do that? (JSON?)