In my case, I'm using the requests
library to call PayPal's API over HTTPS. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error from PayPal, and PayPal support cannot figure out what the error is or what's causing it. They want me to "Please provide the entire request, headers included".
How can I do that?
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You can use HTTP Toolkit to do exactly this.
It's especially useful if you need to do this quickly, with no code changes: you can open a terminal from HTTP Toolkit, run any Python code from there as normal, and you'll be able to see the full content of every HTTP/HTTPS request immediately.
There's a free version that can do everything you need, and it's 100% open source.
I'm the creator of HTTP Toolkit; I actually built it myself to solve the exact same problem for me a while back! I too was trying to debug a payment integration, but their SDK didn't work, I couldn't tell why, and I needed to know what was actually going on to properly fix it. It's very frustrating, but being able to see the raw traffic really helps.
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
r
is a response. It has a request attribute which has the information you need.
r.request.allow_redirects r.request.headers r.request.register_hook
r.request.auth r.request.hooks r.request.response
r.request.cert r.request.method r.request.send
r.request.config r.request.params r.request.sent
r.request.cookies r.request.path_url r.request.session
r.request.data r.request.prefetch r.request.timeout
r.request.deregister_hook r.request.proxies r.request.url
r.request.files r.request.redirect r.request.verify
r.request.headers
gives the headers:
{'Accept': '*/*',
'Accept-Encoding': 'identity, deflate, compress, gzip',
'Authorization': u'Basic dXNlcjpwYXNz',
'User-Agent': 'python-requests/0.12.1'}
Then r.request.data
has the body as a mapping. You can convert this with urllib.urlencode
if they prefer:
import urllib
b = r.request.data
encoded_body = urllib.urlencode(b)
depending on the type of the response the .data
-attribute may be missing and a .body
-attribute be there instead.
If you're using Python 2.x, try installing a urllib2 opener. That should print out your headers, although you may have to combine that with other openers you're using to hit the HTTPS.
import urllib2
urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=1)))
urllib2.urlopen(url)
The verbose
configuration option might allow you to see what you want. There is an example in the documentation.
NOTE: Read the comments below: The verbose config options doesn't seem to be available anymore.
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