Python requests 503 erros when trying to access localhost:8000

Question

I am facing a bit of a situation,

Scenario: I got a django rest api running on my localhost:8000 and I want to access the api using my command line. I have tried urllib

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, but found that it was the company's proxy that was preventing from pinging myself.

503 Reponse when trying to use python request on local website

Try:

>>> import requests
>>> session = requests.Session()
>>> session.trust_env = False
>>> r = session.get("http://localhost:5000/")
>>> r

>>> r.content
'Hello World!'