On 5/5/06, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Headway! The information I was trying to recive is meant to be returned to another cgi script in a parameter string. urllib.urlopen.geturl() gets my information back to me:
The following is run on mywebsite.com
#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
parameters = urllib.urlencode({"id":"hippiedavey","origin":"goatville","dest":"cowtown"})
info = urllib.urlopen("http://www.hillbillyheaven.org/expectorate.asp?%s"%parameters).geturl()
print info
"http://mywebsite.com/Database/test.py?quoteno=999&originzip=47567&destzip=47598&id=hippiedavey&netcharges=$251.73&days=2 "
I can, of course, use string methods to convert the returned request to whatever I want, but I still don't belive this was the original intent of the provider. :-) As it is now, I belive I'll have to create a script that will retrieve the info string, then call another copy of itself to extract the parameters from the info string! Not the worst fate, but it does seem to double up my calls to the webserver.
On the other hand, I'll probably figure something else out! :-)
Thanks!
> I was hoping for something magical like:
>
> gulp = cgi.StreamIO("
> http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/responder.cgi?foo=hi&bar=there&bat=buddy ").read()
>
> ... but for some reason not one of the python creators foresaw that I might
> one day need them to do all the thinking, typing and other hard parts for
> me! </rimshot>
Hi Doug,
Try the 'urllib' client library.
Headway! The information I was trying to recive is meant to be returned to another cgi script in a parameter string. urllib.urlopen.geturl() gets my information back to me:
The following is run on mywebsite.com
#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib
parameters = urllib.urlencode({"id":"hippiedavey","origin":"goatville","dest":"cowtown"})
info = urllib.urlopen("http://www.hillbillyheaven.org/expectorate.asp?%s"%parameters).geturl()
print info
"http://mywebsite.com/Database/test.py?quoteno=999&originzip=47567&destzip=47598&id=hippiedavey&netcharges=$251.73&days=2 "
I can, of course, use string methods to convert the returned request to whatever I want, but I still don't belive this was the original intent of the provider. :-) As it is now, I belive I'll have to create a script that will retrieve the info string, then call another copy of itself to extract the parameters from the info string! Not the worst fate, but it does seem to double up my calls to the webserver.
On the other hand, I'll probably figure something else out! :-)
Thanks!
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-urllib.html
The CGI server library is meant for servers, say, for the person who
would be implmenting responder.cgi.
If you need to do more complicated interactions as a client, then
something like Mechanize might also do the trick:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
but I'd recommend looking into urllib first to see if it's sufficient for
your problem.
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