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Expert Techniques for Disabling SSL Certificate Verification in Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 31, 2023

Requests is the king of Python libraries for HTTP requests. Learn how to disable SSL certificate verification selectively and securely.

How to Set and Change User Agent when using curl

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Learn how to change cURL's user agent to avoid blocks and mimic real browsers for web scraping and API testing.

Sending GET Requests with Python Requests using Postman

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Postman is a popular API testing tool that allows you to easily make HTTP requests. This article explains how to make a simple GET request using Python's requests library and Postman, and how to process the JSON response.

Sending HTTP POST Requests in Python

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Python provides simple methods to simulate HTTP POST requests for testing APIs or web applications. The main tool for sending HTTP requests in Python is the requests library.

What is Requests Used For in Python?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 22, 2023

Requests library simplifies working with HTTP APIs and web services in Python, including web scraping, API testing, interacting with web services, building web clients, fetching data, and automation.

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