> > I have about 17 lines of text (about system information) that I need to pass > to > a remote web server AND I've been asked to send this data via Apache. I have > to > write a python script that will fetch a URL to pass this text. I understand > that > if I want to use the POST method, I would need to have a page with a submit > button, and this is not the case. I also know that with GET, the length of the > url is limited. What is the best way to send a long string?
When you say you that you want to send this data via Apache do you mean that the web server you are sending to is running Apache or that you are communicating from one server to another? If you simply want to emulate a a web page with a submit button that sends a Post you do it with code a bit like the following import urllib, urllib2 url = "http://www.somesite.com/somefolder/exampl1.cgi"; dict = {} dict["field1"] = "value1" dict["field2"] = "value2" ... dict["fieldn"] = "valuen" urldata = urllib.urlencode(dict) req = urllib2.Request(url) req.add_header('User-agent','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0') fd = urllib2.urlopen(req,urldata) Regards Peter Jessop > > Hope anyone can point me to the right direction.. > Thanks, > Patricia > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
