Sending XML Queries in python using urllib2

Query is the xml string that you want to send.  Modify the content type according to your needs.

    def send_xml_query(self, query, host, port):



        query = query.replace ('\n', '')

        headers = {"Content-type": "application/xml"}

        host = 'http://%s:%s' % (host, port)

        request = urllib2.Request(host, query, headers)

        response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

        return request, response