How can I send an xml body using requests library?

Question

def request():
    #encoded_xml = urllib.urlencode({'XML': read_xml()})
    #encoded_xml = read_xml()
    headers = {'Authorization': AUTH_TOKEN,\
               'developerToken': DEVELOPER_TOKEN,\
               'clientCostumerID': CLIENT_ID}
    content = {'__rdxml': encoded_xml}
    #content = encoded_xml
    #content = {'__rdxml': read_xml2()}
    r = requests.post(URL, data=content,\
        headers=headers)
    return r

These combinations don't seem to work.

The headers are not set for some reason.

Answer 1

Just send xml bytes directly:

#!/usr/bin/env python2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import requests  xml = """<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <a>б</a>""" headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'} # set what your server accepts print requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', data=xml, headers=headers).text 

Output

{   "origin": "x.x.x.x",   "files": {},   "form": {},   "url": "http://httpbin.org/post",   "args": {},   "headers": {     "Content-Length": "48",     "Accept-Encoding": "identity, deflate, compress, gzip",     "Connection": "keep-alive",     "Accept": "*/*",     "User-Agent": "python-requests/0.13.9 CPython/2.7.3 Linux/3.2.0-30-generic",     "Host": "httpbin.org",     "Content-Type": "application/xml"   },   "json": null,   "data": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>\n<a>\u0431</a>" } 

Answer 2

Pass in the straight XML instead of a dictionary.