urllib2 and json

Question

can anyone point out a tutorial that shows me how to do a POST request using urllib2 with the data being in JSON format?

Answer 1

You certainly want to hack the header to have a proper Ajax Request :

headers = {'X_REQUESTED_WITH' :'XMLHttpRequest',
           'ACCEPT': 'application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01',}
request = urllib2.Request(path, data, headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()

And to json.loads the POST on the server-side.

Edit : By the way, you have to urllib.urlencode(mydata_dict) before sending them. If you don't, the POST won't be what the server expect