urllib2: post request to textarea

[bfrederi]

I'm getting a 500 error when attempting to make a post request with
urllib2 to a form with a <textarea> tag. When I create the post
request with all the other post data, I don't get a 500. Just the part
of the form that is a <textarea>. Is this just a coincidence, and my
real problem is something else?

Thanks,
Brandon