A question about the urllib2 ?

[Fuzzyman]

Bo Yang wrote:
> Hi ,
> Recently I use python's urllib2 write a small script to login our
> university gateway .
> Usually , I must login into the gateway in order to surf the web . So ,
> every time I
> start my computer , it is my first thing to do that open a browser to
> login the gateway !
>
> So , I decide to write such a script , sending some post information to
> the webserver
> directly to login automatic once the computer is on . And I write the
> code below :
>
> urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url="https://202.113.16.223/php/user_login.php",
> data="loginuser=0312889&password=o127me&domainid=1&refer=1& logintype=
> #####"))
>
> In the five '#' above , I must submit some Chinese character , but the
> urllib2 complain
> for the non-ascii characters .
>
> What do you think this ?
>
I haven't tried this, so I'm guessing :-)

Do you pass in the string to urllib2 as unicode ? If so, try encoding
it to UTF8 first...

Otherwise you might try escaping it using ``urllib.quote_plus``. (Note
``urllib``, *not* ``urllib2``.)

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

> Any help will be appreciated very much , thanks in advance !