> The same is true about PERL( LWP module). Does it mean PERL is
> better??
>
> And as an example you can check
> http://www.globaltradeweb.com/default.asp?w=fbjm
>
> You will not be probably post successfully if you send
> form like
> /cgi-bin/script.cgi
As soon as I heard the word "PERL" and "better", I knew I had to step
in. *grin*
There's actually a very strange problem here: apparently, 'httplib' isn't
handling the '100 continue' server response gracefully. Your server is
telling httplib that it's ok to pass more headers, but apparently, httplib
isn't prepared for this!
I did some research, and found a kludgy hack to make things work.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-December/023204.html
The following source code should do what you want:
###
import httplib, urlparse
def doPost(url):
"""An simplified interface to do an HTTP post. Just pass an URL."""
scheme, location, path, parameters, query, fragment = \
urlparse.urlparse(url)
headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"Accept": "text/plain"}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(location)
conn.request("POST", path, query, headers)
response = safe_getresponse(conn)
data = response.read()
conn.close()
return data
def safe_getresponse(conn):
## This is an ugly kludge! We need to talk with the
## comp.lang.python folks! See:
## http://mail.python.org/pipermail/
## python-list/2000-December/023204.html
## for a reference to this fix.
while 1:
response = conn.getresponse()
if response.status != 100:
break
conn._HTTPConnection__state = httplib._CS_REQ_SENT
conn._HTTPConnection__response = None
return response
if __name__ == '__main__':
url = "http://www.globaltradeweb.com/default.asp?w=fbjm";
print doPost(url)
###
The code above (crossing my fingers) should let the POST finally work for
you. I have to admit, thought, that I feel very naughty about this code.
I feel this is a bug in httplib; does anyone know more about this?
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