import urllib2 data = 'Just a test' request = urllib2.Request('http://127.0.0.1:8000') request.add_data(data) f = urllib2.urlopen(request) print(f.read()) request.add_unredirected_header('Content-type', 'application/xml') data = 'Hello from Volodya' request.add_data(data) f = urllib2.urlopen(request) print(f.read())