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Simple Python script to post a XML file to an web-interface
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import httplib | |
import xml.dom.minidom | |
HOST = "www.domain.nl" | |
API_URL = "/api/url" | |
def do_request(xml_location): | |
"""HTTP XML Post request""" | |
request = open(xml_location, "r").read() | |
webservice = httplib.HTTP(HOST) | |
webservice.putrequest("POST", API_URL) | |
webservice.putheader("Host", HOST) | |
webservice.putheader("User-Agent", "Python post") | |
webservice.putheader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=\"UTF-8\"") | |
webservice.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(request)) | |
webservice.endheaders() | |
webservice.send(request) | |
statuscode, statusmessage, header = webservice.getreply() | |
result = webservice.getfile().read() | |
resultxml = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(result) | |
print statuscode, statusmessage, header | |
print resultxml.toprettyxml() | |
with open("output-%s" % xml_location, "w") as xmlfile: | |
xmlfile.write(resultxml.toprettyxml()) | |
do_request("xml-request-file.xml") |
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This is really great for xml API service testing. Thanks for sharing!