diff --git a/docs/user/advanced.rst b/docs/user/advanced.rst index d8c142c9..a987dff4 100644 --- a/docs/user/advanced.rst +++ b/docs/user/advanced.rst @@ -75,8 +75,42 @@ request, and then the request's headers:: >>> r.request.headers {'Accept-Encoding': 'identity, deflate, compress, gzip', - 'Accept': '*/*', 'User-Agent': 'python-requests/0.13.1'} + 'Accept': '*/*', 'User-Agent': 'python-requests/1.2.0'} +Prepared Requests +----------------- + +Whenever you receive a :class:`Response ` object +from an API call or a Session call, the ``request`` attribute is actually the +``PreparedRequest`` that was used. In some cases you may wish to do some extra +work to the body or headers (or anything else really) before sending a +request. The simple recipe for this is the following:: + + from requests import Request, Session + + s = Session() + prepped = Request('GET', # or any other method, 'POST', 'PUT', etc. + url, + data=data + headers=headers + # ... + ).prepare() + # do something with prepped.body + # do something with prepped.headers + resp = s.send(prepped, + stream=stream, + verify=verify, + proxies=proxies, + cert=cert, + timeout=timeout, + # etc. + ) + print(resp.status_code) + +Since you are not doing anything special with the ``Request`` object, you +prepare it immediately and modified the ``PreparedRequest`` object. You then +send that with the other parameters you would have sent to ``requests.*`` or +``Sesssion.*``. SSL Cert Verification ---------------------