Send x-api-key with POST request header Python

I was given a problem that stated:

#Write a script that uses a web API to create a social media post. #There is a tweet bot API listening at GET / returns basic info about the API. #POST / with x-api-key:tweetbotkeyv1 and data with user tweetbotuser and a status-update of alientest. 

My code responds that I did not provide the x-api-key, but it is in the header. My code:

# # Tweet bot API listening at # GET / returns basic info about api. POST / with x-api-key:tweetbotkeyv1 # and data with user tweetbotuser and status-update of alientest # import urllib.parse import urllib.request data = urllib.parse.urlencode({ "x-api-key": "tweetbotkeyv1", "connection": "keep-alive", "User-agent": "tweetbotuser", "status-update": "alientest" }) url = "" data = data.encode("ascii") with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data) as f: print(f.read().decode("utf-8"))

returns:

{"success": "false", "message":"x-api-key Not provided", "flag":""} 

Is there something wrong with the header?

1 Answer

The url, parameters and header must be submitted in strict order: urllib.request.Request(url, post_param, header) the result will be: {"success": "true", "message":"Well done", "flag":"<the flag will be show here>"}

Here is the working solution

import urllib.parse import urllib.request url = "" header={"x-api-key" : 'tweetbotkeyv1'} post_param = urllib.parse.urlencode({ 'user' : 'tweetbotuser', 'status-update' : 'alientest' }).encode('UTF-8') req = urllib.request.Request(url, post_param, header) response = urllib.request.urlopen(req) print(response.read())