How to send a POST request?

kj

Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

TIA!

kynn

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Jun 27 '08 #1

kj

In <g2**********@reader2.panix.comkj <so***@987jk.com.invalidwrites:

>Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

Sorry, my mistake. I now see that urllib2 handles POSTs too.

kynn

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Jun 27 '08 #2

Jeff McNeil

The original urllib module will do it too, if you pass a data keyword
argument to urllib.urlopen:

u = urllib.urlopen('http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgi.py',
data=urllib.urlencode({'name': 'pythonguy'}))
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:04 PM, kj <so***@987jk.com.invalidwrote:

In <g2**********@reader2.panix.comkj <so***@987jk.com.invalidwrites:

>>Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

Sorry, my mistake. I now see that urllib2 handles POSTs too.

kynn

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Jun 27 '08 #3

subeen

On Jun 7, 6:17 am, "Jeff McNeil" <j...@jmcneil.netwrote:

The original urllib module will do it too, if you pass a data keyword
argument to urllib.urlopen:

u = urllib.urlopen('http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgi.py',
data=urllib.urlencode({'name': 'pythonguy'}))

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:04 PM, kj <so...@987jk.com.invalidwrote:

In <g2cc24$63...@reader2.panix.comkj <so...@987jk.com.invalidwrites:

>Hi. Sorry for this very clueless question, but how does one write
in Python an HTTP client that can send a POST request? The modules
I've found (e.g. urllib, urllib2), as far as I can tell, seem to
be limited to GET requests. (I could be wrong though; please
correct me if this is so.)

Sorry, my mistake. I now see that urllib2 handles POSTs too.

kynn

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check this link for http post:
http://love-python.blogspot.com/2008...l-by-http.html

regards,
Subeen

Jun 27 '08 #4

kj

Thanks to Jeff and subeen for the helpful comments and suggestions.

Kynn
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Jun 27 '08 #5