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Accessing Your Local Web Server from Python Requests

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Accessing a development server on localhost is easy with Python requests: Use http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1, Add the port your server uses like :8000, Disable SSL warnings for HTTPS, Import requests and call get/post as usual!

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