Just reply to myself and whoever might find this useful.
encode() must be done within the request call:
header = {'Content-type':'application/xml', 'charset':'UTF-8'}
response = requests.post(server, data=request.encode('utf-8'),
headers=header)
not in a previous separate line as I did.
Now it works. This wasn't an obvious way to proceed for me.
/H.
On 2020-11-02 10:06, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am writing a program that sends a post request to a server. The post
request may include keywords with Swedish characters (åöä).
I noticed that requests that include strings without those characters
return a useful expected response. On the other hand, posts including
those characters return an 'empty' response. However, if I save that
same request to a file and send it using wget I do get a useful
response. This suggests to me that the problem should be in how the
post is sent or processed before being sent and not in how it is
generated.
My request has the form:
header = {'Content-type':'application/xml', 'charset':'utf-8'}
response = requests.post(server, data=request, headers=header)
I have tried of course adding
request.encode('utf-8')
before sending the request but it has not lead to a different result.
I have spent several hours trying to understand whats going on here. I
thought at first that this had to do with an issue described here:
https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/5560 but apparently that issue
was closed as it was deemed to be unrelated to the requests library.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there something obvious I am
missing here?
I am not new to programming but relatively new to Python, so bear with
me please.
Thanks in advance
/H.
If it is of any use, I post the following too:
python3 -m requests.help
{
"chardet": {
"version": "3.0.4"
},
"cryptography": {
"version": "3.1.1"
},
"idna": {
"version": "2.10"
},
"implementation": {
"name": "CPython",
"version": "3.8.5"
},
"platform": {
"release": "5.9.1-1-default",
"system": "Linux"
},
"pyOpenSSL": {
"openssl_version": "1010108f",
"version": "19.1.0"
},
"requests": {
"version": "2.24.0"
},
"system_ssl": {
"version": "1010108f"
},
"urllib3": {
"version": "1.25.10"
},
"using_pyopenssl": true
}
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