Test for the Python requests module

test-requests-short.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
  
# Test for the Python requests module

# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/
# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/
# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/

import requests

# This URL will return the status code passed in the parameter
URL = "https://httpstat.us/403"

# You can check if the status code is within the "good" range
# Ignore SSL verification (the same as curl -k)
# Also, we are allowing redirects
if requests.get(URL, verify=False, allow_redirects=True).status_code in range(100, 399):
    print("The HTTP request was successful")
else:
    print("The HTTP request was not successful")
    print("The status code was:", response.status_code)

test-requests.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
  
# Test for the Python requests module

# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/
# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/
# https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/

import logging
import requests
import urllib3

# Ignore SSL warnings
urllib3.disable_warnings()
logging.captureWarnings(True)

# This URL responds OK and will not raise an exception
# URL="https://example.com/"
# This URL requires authentication and will raise an exception
# since the status code wasn't in the 1xx, 2xx, or 3xx family
URL = "https://httpstat.us/403"

# Ignore SSL verification (the same as curl -k)
# Also, we are allowing redirects
response = requests.get(URL, verify=False, allow_redirects=True)

# Print misc info about the HTTP request
print("Request headers")
for header in response.request.headers:
    print("> {}: {}".format(header, response.request.headers[header]))

# Print misc info about the HTTP response
print()
print("Response information")
print("URL:", response.url)
print("Status code:", response.status_code)
for header in response.headers:
    print("< {}: {}".format(header, response.headers[header]))
print("Text:", response.text)
print()

# You can check if the status code is within the good range
if response.status_code in range(100, 399):
    print("The HTTP request was successful")
else:
    print("The HTTP request was not successful")
    print("The status code was:", response.status_code)

# This will raise an exception if the status code is not successful
try:
    response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
    print("There was an HTTP error:", e)