python request post not working

Question

I have a question about python request post. With the post, it still returns the searching page not the result page.

I have searched around, but I couldn't solve it by myself.

website: http://facilityquality.dads.state.tx.us/qrs/public/qrs.do?page=searchCity&lang=en&mode=P&dataSet=1&ctx=2630332

my code (headers are not included):

url_city_search='http://facilityquality.dads.state.tx.us/qrs/public/qrs.do?page=searchCity&lang=en&mode=P&dataSet=1&ctx=2630332'
data={"serviceTypeOption":"al_B","cityName":"Houston","dispatch":"citySearch"}
s = requests.Session()
providers=s.post(url_city_search,headers=headers,data=data,timeout=15, verify=True)
print providers.status_code
print providers.text

Answer 1

@sideshowbarker answered your question quite well, but I thought it was also worth adding that requests will handle building the parameter string for you if you pass a dict to the optional params argument in your request. It's easy to get the parameters wrong when building the string yourself.

import requests
url_params = {
 "page": "qrsSearchResults",
 "lang": "en",
 "mode": "P",
 "dataSet": "1"
}
url_base = "http://facilityquality.dads.state.tx.us/qrs/public/qrs.do"
data = {"serviceTypeOption":"al_B", "cityName":"Houston", "dispatch":"citySearch"}
s = requests.Session()
providers = s.post(url_base, params=url_params, data=data, timeout=15, verify=True)
print providers.status_code
print providers.text

• sideshowbarker: Good point. Actually, can’t the data members also being combined with the URL params? They are all just params and values too.
• etemple1: Yes! I wasn't sure if they were url parameters or form data, but they absolutely can (and should) be added.