Set port in requests

Question

I\'m attempting to make use of cgminer\'s API using Python. I\'m particularly interested in utilizing the requests library.

I understand how to

Answer 1

As someone who has learned some of the common pitfalls of python networking the hard way, I'm adding this answer to emphasize an important-but-easy-to-mess-up point about the 1st arg of requests.get():

localhost is an alias which your computer resolves to 127.0.0.1, the IP address of its own loopback adapter. foo.com is also an alias, just one that gets resolved further away from the host.

requests.get('foo.com:4028')                #<--fails
requests.get('http://foo.com:4028')         #<--works usually  

& for loopbacks:

requests.get('http://127.0.0.1:4028')       #<--works
requests.get('http://localhost:4028')       #<--works

this one requires import socket & gives you the local ip of your host (aka, your address within your own LAN); it goes a little farther out from the host than just calling localhost, but not all the way out to the open-internet:

requests.get('http://{}:4028'.format(socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())))  #<--works