def _send_request(payload=None, session=None):
    stub = session
    host_port = stub.host
    # Ive seen some code in pyvmomi where it seems like we check for http vs
    # https but since the default is https do people really run it on http?
    url = 'https://{0}/sdk'.format(host_port)
    logging.debug("Sending {0} to {1}".format(payload, url))
    # I opted to ignore invalid ssl here because that happens in pyvmomi.
    # Once pyvmomi validates ssl it wont take much to make it happen here.
    res = requests.post(url=url, data=payload, headers={
        'Cookie': stub.cookie,
        'SOAPAction': 'urn:vim25',
        'Content-Type': 'application/xml'
    }, verify=False)
    if res.status_code != 200:
        logging.debug("Failed to reset alarm. HTTP Status: {0}".format(
            res.status_code))
        return False
    return True
Using requests we send a SOAP envelope directly to the
dataset/ETHPy150Open vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples/samples/tools/alarm.py/_send_request