Submitting a JSON post request in Python with an `application/json` type.

send_post.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import urllib, urllib2

# URL and Data to Send
url = 'http://localhost/api/table_name'
values = { 'user': 'username',
           'count': 5,
           'status': False }

# Construction JSON data and send request
data = json.dumps(values)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

# Send the request
try:
  response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
  # Print the response of the request
  response_data = response.read()
  print response.code
  print response.headers
  print response_data
except urllib2.HTTPError as e:
  print "Error: " + str(e.code)
  print "Message: " + e.msg
  print "Content:"
  print e.read()