On 18Mar2010 22:43, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: | Brandon Conner wrote: | > I'm trying to develop a script that will return the results of a POST | > request that should list all images uploaded by a user. However, when i | > run the script, i get returned the HTML of the page with the search | > form. I am wondering what am i doing incorrectly? Is it something I'm | > doing or is the imagebin server rejecting my request? | > | > here's the code: | > | > import urllib | > import urllib2 | > url = 'http://imagebin.org/index.php?page=search' | > values = {'search_for' : 'blah', 'field' : 'Nickname'} | > data = urllib.urlencode(values) | > request = urllib2.Request(url, data) | > response = urllib2.urlopen(request) | > page = response.read() | > print page | > | > tks, pythons great | > | You need to tell the browser (in an HTTP header) that what you are | sending is HTML. Try putting | | print "Content-Type: text/html\n" | | at the start of your script.
I think it may need to be "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", not text/html. But otherwise, yes, missing Content-Type. And the request method needs to be POST; I expect the code above will be using GET unless told not to. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
