bruce wrote: > hi... > > i have the basic code to fetcha url/web page. however, i'm trying to fetch a > page that uses a FORM/POST. has anyone done this, i've tried a few times > without success. > > i've analyzed the data stream using Firefox/Livehttpheaders to get the HTTP > stream.. but i'm doing something wrong, and can't quite see what the > err/issue is... > > if you've done this kind of thing, and you have some thoughts, let me know. > i can send you the output of the livehttpheaders app, and the test code that > i have... > > thanks.. > > -bruce
If you read the page and parse the form or already know the values you need to POST this may help. >From http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/httplib-examples.html Here is an example session that shows how to "POST" requests: >>> import httplib, urllib >>> params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0}) >>> headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", ... "Accept": "text/plain"} >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("musi-cal.mojam.com:80") >>> conn.request("POST", "/cgi-bin/query", params, headers) >>> response = conn.getresponse() >>> print response.status, response.reason 200 OK >>> data = response.read() >>> conn.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list