> Not exactly - this is the "query string" part of the URI. > Request and Response are the two messages defined by the HTTP protocol. > When you type a URL or click on a link or press a button in a page, your > browser builds the appropiate Request message and sends it to the server. > After processing, the server emits the Response message, and the browser > displays it or otherwise processes the response. > > -- > Gabriel Genellina
Thanks Paul and Gabriel - I am confused I guess - I do know about the request/response mechanism, I wrote this app a while ago: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/522983 - I wrote this app before in C and decoded request/response params using a sniffer - I ported it to Python since I wanted to learn Python > The string after "?" in a URL is actually the "query string" and is > typically exposed as the QUERY_STRING environment variable in CGI. See > here for more specific details: This is what is mixing me up - an example given in the source for Pyfacebook - http://pyfacebook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/examples.py def simple_web_app(request, api_key, secret_key): fb = Facebook(api_key, secret_key, request.GET['auth_token']) fb.auth.getSession() It seemed to me "request" was a key in a key/value pair string/ dictionary Anyway, I have the "auth_token" now and I can pass these 3 string values to as Facebook(<api_key>, <secret_key>, <auth_token>) - and it's moving along - but I am persevering :) no PHP for me - I hope I can put up a tut for this afterwards Thanks again for the help, guys -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
