Question

I am trying to print the POST request that I am doing using my python script. I was wondering if there is a way to print the post request so as to see how the parameters are passed through the script which I wish to compare it with the browser. I read through the urllib2 api but was not able to find a function that could help me in printing my POST request. Any pointers on this is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

If you are using urllib2.Request, you must provide the body of the POST request as an application/x-www-form-urlencoded string.

Since you are responsible for building the POST body, you can easily print or log it.

Edit

There is also urllib2.Request.get_data(). Maybe you can us this.

Edit 2

Use it like this:

req = urllib2.Request("http://example.com/", "foo:bar")
print req.get_method()    # => 'POST'
print req.get_data()      # => 'foo:bar'

res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print res.getcode()       # => 200
print res.headers.items() # => [('transfer-encoding', 'chunked'), ...