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+import sys
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+
+def http_request(url, params={}):
+    params = urllib.urlencode(params)
+    headers = {
+        "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
+        "User-Agent": (
+            "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) "
+            "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+            "Chrome/40.0.2214.94 Safari/537.36"
+        ),
+        "Accept": "text/plain"
+    }
+    try:
+        if params:
+            req = urllib2.Request(url, params, headers)
+        else:
+            req = urllib2.Request(url, params, headers)
+        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        return response.read()
+    except ValueError:
+        sys.stderr.write(
+            "Bad Post params or Url sent to photoblaster"
+            "api.\n"
+        )
+    except urllib2.URLError:
+        sys.stderr.write(
+            "Could not complete post request to the given url:\n" +
+            ("URL: %s\n" % url) +
+            ("PARAMS: %s\n" % params)
+        )