What is HTTP?

HTTP is a set of protocols designed to enable communication between clients and servers. It works as a request-response protocol between a client and a server. A web browser may be the client, and an application on a computer that hosts a website may be the server. So, to request a response from the server, there are mainly two methods:

1. GET: To request data from the server.
2. POST: To submit data to be processed to the server.

Here is a simple diagram that explains the basic concept of GET and POST methods.

 Now, to make HTTP requests in Python, we can use several HTTP libraries like:

• httplib
• urllib
• requests

The most elegant and simplest of the above-listed libraries is Requests. We will be using the requests library in this article. To download and install the Requests library, use the following command:

pip install requests

This post discusses two HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request methods  GET and POST requests in Python and their implementation in Python.