Requests - HTTP OPTIONS - Python Examples

HTTP Options

HTTP OPTIONS method describes the communication options for the target resource identified by the given URL.

Example

In Python Requests library, requests.post() method is used to send a OPTIONS request to a server over HTTP.

import requests

response = requests.options('/')

requests.options() returns a Response object. It contains all the data and properties like response content, headers, encoding, cookies, etc. Let us print out headers.

Python Program

import requests

response = requests.options('/')
print(response.headers)

Output

{'Date': 'Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:20:57 GMT', 'Content-Length': '0', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Keep-Alive': 'timeout=30', 'Server': 'Apache/2', 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'Allow': 'OPTIONS,GET,HEAD,POST,TRACE', 'Referrer-Policy': 'no-referrer-when-downgrade'}

Summary

In this Python Tutorial, we learned about HTTP OPTIONS in requests module.