I'm struggling with using urllib2 to access the Harvest time-tracking web service (http://www.getharvest.com/api). GET is working fine. POST is giving me a problem. Here is an example that creates a new time-tracking entry using curl.
$ curl http://subdomain.harvestapp.com/daily/add -H 'Accept: application/xml' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \ -u myusername:mypassword \ -d '<request><notes>testing API</notes><hours>3.5</ hours><project_id>65750</project_id><task_id>79702</ task_id><spent_at>Thu, 13 Sep 2007</spent_at></request>' Here's a selection of info from running the above with --verbose output: * About to connect() to edmstudio.harvestapp.com port 80 > POST /daily/add HTTP/1.1 > Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Accept: application/xml > Content-Type: application/xml > Content-Length: 154 > > <request><notes>testing > API</notes><hours>3.5</hours><project_id>65750</project_id><task_id>79702</task_id><spent_at>Thu, > 13 Sep 2007</spent_at></request>HTTP/1.1 201 Created Notice that 1) it is a POST, and 2) the data is going across as an unencoded (xml) string. Now here is my attempt to achieve this with python's urllib2: entry = "<request><notes>testing API</notes><hours>3.5</ hours><project_id>65750</project_id><task_id>79702</ task_id><spent_at>Thu, 13 Sep 2007</spent_at></request>" import urllib2 import base64 opener = urllib2.build_opener() opener.addheaders = [ ('Content-Type', 'application/xml'), ('Accept', 'application/xml'), ('Authorization', 'Basic %s' \ % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (myusername, mypassword)))] # this GET works just fine - proof that authentication is correct req = urllib2.Request(url='http://subdomain.harvestapp.com/daily') response = opener.open(req) print response.read() # this POST (same data as the above curl example) fails with an internal server error (500) req = urllib2.Request(url='http://subdomain.harvestapp.com/daily/add', data=entry) response = opener.open(req) print response.read() I'm stumped. As always, any help is much appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
