http post and get the parameter from url

[SaraswathiIndirarajan]

Hi,

I have a script client.py as:

import httplib
 
http = httplib.HTTP("localhost:8081")
data="Welcome to My Page"
http.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/server.py?id="+data)
http.putheader("Host", "localhost:8081")
http.putheader("Content-Type", 'text/plain')
http.putheader("Content-Length", str(len(data)))
http.endheaders()
http.send(data)
 

Server.py:

import httplib
import cgi
 
print "Content-Type:text/plain"
print
 
id=cgi.FieldStorage()
print id

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I got the malformed header from script. Bad header=200: error.

I want to read the posted data from Client.py in Server.py. How do i get the parameter value from the url. Kindly help me.

[sharat87]

hello,

i'm not sure it would work... but try this

instead of the following two lines in your client.py,

data="Welcome to My Page"
http.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/server.py?id="+data)
 

do this...

import urllib
data = "Welcome to my page"
http.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/server.py?id=" + urllib.quote(data))
 

what this does is that it will escape the characters like the (space) in your data in a protocol friendly manner. to undo this escaping, you can use the

urllib.unquote(s)
 

function

if this does not work.. take a look at the urllib.urlencode function.. that might help ya!

regards,
sharat87