http(s) request with body in python using socket

socket_http-s_request.py

#!/bin/env python
"""
A simple example of using Python sockets for a HTTP(S) request
"""

import socket, ssl

host = "httpbin.org"
port = 443
method = "POST"
path = "/post"
body = "a=1"

with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
    s.connect((host, port))
    if port == 443:
        s = ssl.wrap_socket(s)
    
    request = "{method} {path} HTTP/1.1\r\n".format(method=method, path=path)
    request += "Host: {host}\r\n".format(host=host)
    request += "Accept: */*\r\n"
    request += "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0\r\n"
    if len(body) > 0:
        request += "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
        request += "Content-Length: {len}\r\n".format(len=len(body))
    request += "\r\n"
    request += body
    
    print(request)
    s.sendall(request.encode())
    
    print(str(s.recv(4096), 'utf-8'))