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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Trouble getting full response content from PATCH request
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:17:08 +0000 (UTC)
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In <mailman.15988.1416366536.18130.python-list@python.org> Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> >The API uses the HTTP PATCH operation to set user passwords, and in
> >case of unacceptable passwords, the response is supposed to be an HTML
> >document containing a diagnostic message in the <body> tag.
> >
> >When I submit my test data via a functional testing tool (SoapUI), it
> >behaves as expected.
> >
> >However, when I submit test data from Python code, the response content
> >consists only of the diagnostic message, with no enclosing <html> or <body>
> >tags.
> [...]

> You need a "SOAPAction: " HTTP header with SOAP requests. It may be that 
> simple.

The API does provide some SOAP calls, but the specific call I'm using is
REST.  Is there a corresponding header I should use?

Thanks.

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