Andre Engels wrote: > 2006/3/2, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Andre Engels wrote: >> >>>Thanks for your help; it brought me quite a bit farther, but not as >>>far as I wanted to come. The authentication is basic authentication, >>>and I have been able to adapt the programs so that I now get my pages >>>correctly. >>> >>>However, the program uses not only 'GET' operations, but also 'PUT' >>>operations. These are done using httplib rather than urllib, and I >>>cannot see at this point how I can mimick those using urllib2. >> >>The docs don't spell it out, but if you pass the 'data' parameter to >>urllib2.urlopen(), it will make a POST request instead of a GET. The >>data has to be formatted as application/x-www-form-urlencoded; >>urllib.urlencode() will do this for you. >> >>So for example: >> >>import urllib, urllib2 >>data = dict(param1='foo', param2='bar') >>data = urllib.urlencode(data) >> >># set up your basic auth as before >>result = urllib2.urlopen('http://some.server.com', data).read() > > > Thanks, I've gotten some further again, but the following problem is > that I am using this connection to get some cookies, which are read > from the page headers. As far as I can see, urllib2 puts the page > headers into a dictionary, which is not what I need, because there are > 4 different set-cookie headers sent out by the site, and I get only > one "set-cookie" value. Am I right in this, and is there a way around > it?
Have you tried using a CookieManager as shown in the first example here: http://docs.python.org/lib/cookielib-examples.html Once you set up your opener with a CookieJar the cookies should be handled automatically - if a server sets a cookie it will be remembered and returned back to the server on subsequent requests. This page has more examples though again IMO they are overly complex: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/cookielib.shtml Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor