prequest¶
Submit a HTTP request to a web application.
This command makes an artificial request to a web application that uses a PasteDeploy (.ini) configuration file for the server and application.
Use "prequest config.ini /path" to request "/path".
Use "prequest --method=POST config.ini /path < data" to do a POST with the given request body.
Use "prequest --method=PUT config.ini /path < data" to do a PUT with the given request body.
Use "prequest --method=PATCH config.ini /path < data" to do a PATCH with the given request body.
Use "prequest --method=OPTIONS config.ini /path" to do an OPTIONS request.
Use "prequest --method=PROPFIND config.ini /path" to do a PROPFIND request.
If the path is relative (doesn't begin with "/") it is interpreted as relative to "/". The path passed to this script should be URL-quoted. The path can be succeeded with a query string (e.g. '/path?a=1&=b2').
The variable "environ['paste.command_request']" will be set to "True" in the request's WSGI environment, so your application can distinguish these calls from normal requests.
usage: prequest [-h] [-n NAME] [--header NAME:VALUE] [-d]
[-m {GET,HEAD,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,PROPFIND,OPTIONS}] [-l LOGIN]
[config_uri] [path_info] [config_vars ...]
- config_uri¶
The URI to the configuration file.
- path_info¶
The path of the request.
- config_vars¶
Variables required by the config file. For example, http_port=%(http_port)s would expect http_port=8080 to be passed here.
- -h, --help¶
show this help message and exit
- -n <name>, --app-name <name>¶
Load the named application from the config file (default 'main')
- --header <name:value>¶
Header to add to request (you can use this option multiple times)
- -d, --display-headers¶
Display status and headers before the response body
- -m {GET,HEAD,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,PROPFIND,OPTIONS}, --method {GET,HEAD,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE,PROPFIND,OPTIONS}¶
Request method type (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, PROPFIND, OPTIONS)
- -l <login>, --login <login>¶
HTTP basic auth username:password pair
See also