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Why I am getting a invalid checksum response on doing a post request?

I have tried using a rest client (ARC)for doing a post request to a private API and I am getting correct response but when I switch to python and did the same request using the python request package , the response is this
b'{"code":"Invalid Checksum","message":"Invalid Checksum"}'
I am using the same URL , header and body tag. Where can I possibly go wrong .
Here is the code snippet
import requests
import json
request_args = {"Id": -1,"startDate": "2018-01-13","endDate": "2018-01-14","ProviderId": 1}
headers = {'Authorization':'xxxxxx','Content-Type':'application/json','content-md5':'yyyy'}
base_url = "https://myendpoint"
response = requests.post(base_url,data=request_args, headers=headers)
print(response.content)

Node server doesnt recieve the JSON file I send him

i'm trying to send a post request to my express server using python, this is my code:
import requests
print("started");
URL = "http://localhost:5000/api/chat"
PARAMS = {'ID':"99","otherID":"87",'chat':[{"senderName":"tom","text":"helloworld"}]}
r = requests.post(url = URL, data = PARAMS)
pastebin_url = r.text
print("The pastebin URL is:%s"%pastebin_url)
but when I recieve the call, I get an empty object on my Node server, am I missing something?
(With postman it works fine so its not the server)

typically requests library differentiates on the type of request depending on the param used to make the request. Meaning if you intend to make a JSON post then one should use the json param like so:
response = requests.post(url=URL, json=PARAMS)
what this does is set the accompanying headers which is why when your express server attempts to parse it, it comes back empty

Python request resulting in blank response

I'm relatively new to Python so would like some help, I've created a script which simply use the request library and basic auth to connect to an API and returns the xml or Json result.
# Imports
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
# Set variables
url = "api"
apiuser = 'test'
apipass = 'testpass'
# CALL API
r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(apiuser, apipass))
# Print Statuscode
print(r.status_code)
# Print XML
xmlString = str(r.text)
print(xmlString)
if but it returns a blank string.
If I was to use a browser to call the api and enter the cretentials I get the following response.
<Response>
<status>SUCCESS</status>
<callId>99999903219032190321</callId>
<result xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="Dummy">
<authorFullName>jack jones</authorFullName>
<authorOrderNumber>1</authorOrderNumber>
</result>
</Response>
Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong.

What API are you connecting to?
Try adding a user-agent to the header:
r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(apiuser, apipass), headers={'User-Agent':'test'})

Although this is not an exact answer for the OP, it may solve the issue for someone having a blank response from python-requests.
I was getting a blank response because of the wrong content type. I was expecting an HTML rather than a JSON or a login success. The correct content-type for me was application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Essentially I had to do the following to make my script work.
data = 'arcDate=2021/01/05'
headers = {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
}
r = requests.post('https://www.deccanherald.com/getarchive', data=data, headers=headers)
print(r.status_code)
print(r.text)
Learn more about this in application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data?

Run this and see what responses you get.
import requests
url = "https://google.com"
r = requests.get(url)
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json)
print(r.text)
When you start having to pass things in your GET, PUT, DELETE, OR POST requests, you will add it in the request.
url = "https://google.com"
headers = {'api key': 'blah92382377432432')
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
Then you should see the same type of responses. Long story short,
Print(r.text) to see the response, then you once you see the format of the response you get, you can move it around however you want.

I have an empty response only when the authentication failed or is denied.
The HTTP status is still ≤ 400.
However, in the header you can find :
'X-Seraph-LoginReason': 'AUTHENTICATED_FAILED'
or
'X-Seraph-LoginReason': 'AUTHENTICATED_DENIED'

If the request is empty, not even a status code I could suggest waiting some time between printing. Maybe the server is taking time to return the response to you.
import time
time.sleep(5)
Not the nicest thing, but it's worth trying
How can I make a time delay in Python?
I guess there are no errors during execution
EDIT: nvm, you mentioned that you got a status code, I thought you were literally geting nothing.
On the side, if you are using python3 you have to use Print(), it replaced Print

slack api calls through python request library

I was making slack api calls through python library slackclient which is a wrapper around slack api. However, for some cases I need to make conventional api calls also with url and get/post method. I was trying to open a direct message channel with another user by my bot. The documentation - https://api.slack.com/methods/im.open says to "Present these parameters as part of an application/x-www-form-urlencoded querystring or POST body. application/json is not currently accepted."
Now in python, I can write,
url = 'https://slack.com/api/im.open'
headers = {'content-type':'x-www-form-urlencoded'}
data = {'token':BOT_TOKEN, 'user':user_id, 'include_locale':'true','return_im':'true'}
r= requests.post(url,headers,data )
print r.text
The message I get is {"ok":false,"error":"not_authed"}
I know the message is "not authed" although I use my bot token and another user id, my hunch is that I'm sending the request in wrong format because I just wrote it some way reading the documentation. I'm not sure how to exactly send these requests.
Any help?

since the Content-Type header is x-www-form-urlencoded sending data in form of dictionary does not work. you can try something like this.
import requests
url = 'https://slack.com/api/im.open'
headers = {'content-type': 'x-www-form-urlencoded'}
data = [
('token', BOT_TOKEN),
('user', user_id),
('include_locale', 'true'),
('return_im', 'true')
]
r = requests.post(url, data, **headers)
print r.text

The second parameter in requests.post is used for data, so in your request you're actually posting the headers dictionary. If you want to use headers you can pass arguments by name.
r= requests.post(url, data, headers=headers)
However this is not necessary in this case because 'x-www-form-urlencoded' is the default when posting form data.

Making a successful Python HTTP POST Request

I am trying to write a python script that will make a request to a desktop application listening to 8080 port. The below is the code that I use to make the request.
import requests
payload = {"url":"abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz=",
"password":"qertyuioplkjhgfdsazxvnm=",
"token":"abcdefghijklmn1254786=="}
headers = {'Content-Type':'application/json'}
r = requests.post('http://localhost:9015/login',params = payload, headers=headers)
response = requests.get("http://localhost:9015/login")
print(r.status_code)
After making the request, I get a response code of 401.
However, when I try the same using the Postman app, I get a successful response. The following are the details I give in Postman:
URL: http://localhost:9015/login
METHOD : POST
Headers: Content-Type:application/json
Body: {"url":"abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz=",
"password":"qertyuioplkjhgfdsazxvnm=",
"token":"abcdefghijklmn1254786=="}
Can I get some suggestions on where I am going wrong with my python script?

You pass params, when you should pass data, or, even better, json for setting Content-Type automatically. So, it should be:
import json
r = requests.post('http://localhost:9015/login', data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
or
r = requests.post('http://localhost:9015/login', json=payload)
(params adds key-value pairs to query parameters in the url)