I'm working with a third-party API and I'm seeing some behavior that I
can't explain.
The API uses the HTTP PATCH operation to set user passwords, and in
case of unacceptable passwords, the response is supposed to be an HTML
document containing a diagnostic message in the <body> tag.
When I submit my test data via a functional testing tool (SoapUI), it
behaves as expected.
However, when I submit test data from Python code, the response content
consists only of the diagnostic message, with no enclosing <html> or <body>
tags.
Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening?
Here's a sample of the code I'm using:
import requests
# API credentials -- username and password
auth = ('foo', 'bar')
# xml for setting password
with open('set_password.xml') as f:
raw_xml = f.read()
# fill in the requested password
body = raw_xml.format(password='hello')
headers = {'Content-type': 'text/xml'}
url = 'https://some.server.com/api/call/'
response = requests.patch(url, data=body, auth=auth, verify=False,
headers=headers)
print 'HTTP status code: %s' % response.status_code
print 'response content:'
print response.content
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