Unable to make post request using request library python

Question

I am trying to use requests module in python to communicate with a rest server

This is what I am trying to do:

headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
data = {'foo':'foo','bar':'bar'}
r = requests.post("http://localhost:8080/foo",headers=headers,data=json.dumps(data))
print r.text
u'Resource representation is only available with these Content-Types:\napplication/json; charset=UTF-8'

How do I resolve this? Thanks

• Omid Raha: Try this header: headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}

Answer 1

Try to change headers to:

headers = {'Accept': 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'}

upd: I think the most correct headers would be:

headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json'}

• frazman: With your suggestion, I get this response "u'Resource representation is only available with these Content-Types:\ntext/plain; charset=UTF-8\ntext/plain"
• frazman: I tried this headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain; charset=UTF-8'} and it gave The server was not able to produce a timely response to your request
• Bunyk: how with headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'} or without headers?
• frazman: with this option.. i get u"There was a problem with the requests Content-Type:\nExpected 'application/json'"