Sending GET request for an IP address

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I need to send a request to a web server of mine to start a stream. The web server is located at 0.0.0.0 (of course I can change the address).

How can I send a “GET” request to that server?

I already tried using httplib or urllib2 or 3 and they seem not to work with IP address.

I know that a local DNS server will map the address to a url, but that is not the goal to set up the server every time I want to execute the code in a new network.

Thank a lot.

Asked By: Yahya Nik

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Answer 1

It doesn’t work because you probably haven’t included the web protocol to use (i.e. HTTP or HTTPS). Try it like this

import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen('http://0.0.0.0')

Answered By: orangeblock

Answer 2

You could use requests:
requests.get('http://0.0.0.0')

or even better

s = requests.Session()

s.get('http://0.0.0.0')
r = s.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies')

to keep the connection persistent, which is probably more like what you want.
See more about requests sessions at http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/

Or you could just convert the IP address to a hostname using
socket.gethostbyaddr(ip) with urllib
to convert the IP address to a host name

Answered By: user2556381

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