How to post a django request to external server

Question

Hi so I have this method in django views to post the file to a different server. I get an HTTP 415 error complaining about the media type of the request. I have debugged the

Answer 1

If you look at the documentation of requests it says about the data keyword:

data – (optional) Dictionary, bytes, or file-like object to send in the body of the Request.

Django's request object is an instance of HttpRequest.You should try to put the necessary data in a dictionary and pass it to post().

Answer 2

Do this:

r = requests.post('http://localhost:9090/validate', data=request.POST)

You are passing a full django.http.HttpRequest object to requests.post, when you only need its post data.