urllib2/requests and HTTP relative path

Question

How can I force urllib2/requests modules to use relative paths instead of full/absolute URL??

when I send request using urllib2/requests I see in my proxy that it re

Answer 1

Probably the following code would do for your case:

from urlparse import urljoin
import requests

class RelativeSession(requests.Session):
    def __init__(self, base_url):
        super(RelativeSession, self).__init__()
        self.__base_url = base_url

    def request(self, method, url, **kwargs): 
        url = urljoin(self.__base_url, url)
        return super(RelativeSession, self).request(method, url, **kwargs)

session = RelativeSession('http://server.net')
response = session.get('/rel/url')