title: Requests 01
tags: python web requests

# Post Example
Get requests are similar, but without the `data` payload, so if you understand
how to `POST` in `requests`, then you basically know how to `GET` too.
```py
import requests
import access
import json

url = "http://localhost/path/to/a.php"

cookies = { access.cookiename: acccess.cookievalue }

namespace = "turtle"
name = "dove"

req = { "namespace": namespace, "name": name }

r = requests.post(url,data=json.dumps(req),cookies=cookies)
match r.status_code:
    case 200:
        try:
            reply = json.loads(r.text)
            value = reply["value"]
            print(value)
        except Exception as e:
            print("error",r,r.text,e,file=sys.stderr)
    case 404:
        print(f"{namespace}:{name} not found",file=sys.stderr)
    case 403:
        print(f"Access denied",file=sys.stderr)
        exit(1)
```

# Notes
* At present you can't force IPv4 or IPv6. (I ended up using curl when this was necessary.)