Question

I have a Django app that’s serving up a RESTful API using tasty-pie.

I’m using Django’s development runserver to test.

When I access it via a browser it works fine, and using Curl also works fine:

curl "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/host/?name__regex=&format=json"

On the console with runserver, I see:

[02/Oct/2012 17:24:20] "GET /api/v1/host/?name__regex=&format=json HTTP/1.1" 200 2845

However, when I try to use the Python requests module (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/), I get a 404 as the output:

>>> r = requests.get('http://localhost:8000/api/v1/host/?name__regex=&format=json')
>>> r
<Response [404]>

or:

>>> r = requests.get('http://localhost:8000/api/v1/host/?name__regex=&format=json')
>>> r
<Response [404]>

Also, on the Django runserver console, I see:

[02/Oct/2012 17:25:01] "GET http://localhost:8000/api/v1/host/?name__regex=&format=json HTTP/1.1" 404 161072

For some reason, when I use requests, it prints out the whole request URL, including localhost – but not when I use the browser, or curl.

I’m assuming this is something to do with the encoding, user-agent or request type it’s sending?

Answer 1

I’m not very familiar with Requests, but I think your encoding idea might be sound. That is Requests might process the URL somehow? Perhaps instead of passing everything in the URL directly, try doing what Requests docs suggest:

request_params = { 'name_regex' : '', 'format' : 'json' }
r = requests.get( 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/host/', params = request_params )