Ladislav> If I use example from Python doc like this
Ladislav> ####################
Ladislav> import httplib, urllib
Ladislav> params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
Ladislav> h = httplib.HTTP("www.musi-cal.com:80")
Ladislav> h.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/script.cgi")
...
Ladislav> ################
Ladislav> it works well but only if the script is like
Ladislav> http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi
Ladislav> but if the script is like
Ladislav> http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=Paul
Ladislav> (note a part after ? ) it means that PUTREQUEST should be
Ladislav> h.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=Paul")
Ladislav> but httplib ignores everything after '?' and sends only
Ladislav> /cgi-bin/script.cgi
Ladislav> again
You can change things a couple ways:
* If you want to use the POST method, you must always send the
parameters using a call to the send() method of the HTTP object. In
this case, you had
params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
...
h.send(params)
If you want the parameter to be "name" with a value of "Paul", change
the call that sets params to
params = urllib.urlencode({'name': 'Paul'})
* Use the GET method instead of the POST method:
h = httplib.HTTP("www.musi-cal.com:80")
h.putrequest("GET", "/cgi-bin/script.cgi?name=Paul")
h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
h.putheader('Host', 'www.musi-cal.com')
h.endheaders()
reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
In any case, make sure when you test your code you are communicating with a
web server that you know and that actually has the URL you are interested
in. As the webmaster of www.musi-cal.com I can tell you with a fair degree
of certainty there is no CGI script here named "script.cgi".
--
Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.mojam.com/)
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