How to send a POST request?

[kj]

Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

TIA!

kynn

 

[kj]

Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

Sorry, my mistake. I now see that urllib2 handles POSTs too.

kynn

 

[Jeff McNeil]

The original urllib module will do it too, if you pass a data keyword
argument to urllib.urlopen:

u = urllib.urlopen('http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgi.py',
data=urllib.urlencode({'name': 'pythonguy'}))

 

[subeen]

The original urllib module will do it too, if you pass a data keyword
argument to urllib.urlopen:

u = urllib.urlopen('http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgi.py',
data=urllib.urlencode({'name': 'pythonguy'}))

check this link for http post:
http://love-python.blogspot.com/2008/04/get-content-html-source-of-url-by-http.html

regards,
Subeen

 

[kj]

Thanks to Jeff and subeen for the helpful comments and suggestions.

Kynn