code: def query_lit_server(
      url: str,
      endpoint: str,
      params: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None,
      inputs: Optional[Any] = None,
      config: Optional[Any] = None,
  ) -> Any:
      """Query a LIT server from Python."""
      # Pack data for LIT request
      data = {"inputs": inputs, "config": config}
      # TODO(lit-dev): for open source, require HTTPS.
      if not url.startswith("http://"):
          url = "http://" + url
      full_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, endpoint)
      # Use requests to handle URL params.
      rq = requests.Request(
          "POST",
          full_url,
          params=params,
          data=serialize.to_json(data),
          headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
      )
      rq = rq.prepare()
      # Convert to urllib request
      request = urllib.request.Request(
          url=rq.url,
          data=six.ensure_binary(rq.body) if rq.body else None,
          headers=rq.headers,
          method=rq.method,
      )
      response = urlopen(request)
      if response.code != 200:
          raise IOError(
              f"Failed to query {rq.url}; response code {response.code}"
          )
      # TODO(iftenney): handle bad server response, e.g. if corplogin is required
      # and the server sends a login page instead of a JSON response.
      response_bytes = response.read()
      return serialize.from_json(six.ensure_text(response_bytes))
  
file_path: lit/lit_nlp/components/remote_model.py
imports: from typing import Any, Optional
  import urllib
  from absl import logging
  from lit_nlp.api import model
  from lit_nlp.api import types
  from lit_nlp.lib import serialize
  import requests
  import six
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: query_lit_server(url, endpoint, params, inputs, config) and returns: serialize