Use pycurl to POST http data to a REST endpoint over TLS

pycurl_post_o_tls.py

import json
import pycurl

def pycurl_post_over_tls():
    with open('data_to_read.json', 'r') as f:
        url = "https://httpbin.org/post"
        
        # load json data from the file read
        json_data = json.load(f)
        # stringify the json data (now json_data is dict) to be used in the POST body
        # (pycurl will crap if directly fed the dict type in POST)
        post_data = json.dumps(json_data)
        
        # headers if any
        # use the append method to add headers
        # e.g. headers.append('FOO: {}'.format('Bar'))
        headers = []
        
        c = pycurl.Curl()
        c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
        c.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, post_data)
        # set SSL_VERIFYPEER to 1 if you want to verify the server certificate
        # checkout pycurl.CAINFO to setup your certchain
        # e.g. c.setopt(pycurl.CAINFO, '/etc/ssl/certs/')
        c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
        c.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
        c.setopt(pycurl.HTTPHEADER, headers)
        c.perform()
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pycurl_post_over_tls()