What is HTTP?
HTTP is a set of protocols designed to enable communication between clients and servers. It works as a request-response protocol between a client and a server. A web browser may be the client, and an application on a computer that hosts a website may be the server. So, to request a response from the server, there are mainly two methods:
- GET: To request data from the server.
- POST: To submit data to be processed to the server.
Here is a simple diagram that explains the basic concept of GET and POST methods.
Now, to make HTTP requests in Python, we can use several HTTP libraries like:
- httplib
- urllib
- requests
The most elegant and simplest of the above-listed libraries is Requests. We will be using the requests library in this article. To download and install the Requests library, use the following command:
pip install requests
GET and POST Requests Using Python
This post discusses two HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request methods GET and POST requests in Python and their implementation in Python.