HTTPS - example code anywhere?

[greg jorgensen]

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Dick Norton wrote:

> I need to do a post to an HTTPS url and look at the result.
>
> I'd very much like to use Python and was wondering if anyone
> could point me at some sample code for this task.  I am as yet
> only able to find the odd one line reference to such.

The urllib module is what you want. See the library documentation at
python.org. David Beazley's book "Python Essential Reference" is handy as
well.

Greg Jorgensen
Portland, Oregon, USA
gregj at pobox.com