On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Littlefield, Tyler <ty...@tysdomain.com> wrote: > Hello: > I have some data that needs to be fed through a html form to get validated > and processed and the like. How can I use python to send data through that > form, given a specific url? the form says it uses post, but I"m not really > sure what the difference is.
They're different HTTP request methods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods The key upshot in this case is that GET requests place the parameters in the URL itself, whereas POST requests place them in the body of the request. > would it just be: > http://mysite.com/bla.php?foo=bar&bar=foo? No, that would be using GET. > If so, how do I do that with python? Sending POST data can be done as follows (I'm changing bar=foo to bar=qux for greater clarity): from urllib import urlopen, urlencode form_data = {'foo' : 'bar', 'bar' : 'qux'} encoded_data = urlencode(form_data) try: # 2nd argument to urlopen() is the POST data to send, if any f = urlopen('http://mysite.com/bla.php', encoded_data) result = f.read() finally: f.close() Relevant docs: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list