how-to POST form data to ASP pages?

[livin]

Hi Alan,

I have tried the code you suggested and a more simple set of post parameters 
(below).

        import urllib
        name_value_pairs = {'control_device': 'Kitchen Lights=off'}
        params = urllib.urlencode(name_value_pairs)
        urllib.urlopen("http://192.168.1.11:80", params)


Either way I get this error log...

File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 78, in urlopen
File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 183, in open
File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\urllib.py", line 297, in open_http
File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\httplib.py", line 712, in endheaders
File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\httplib.py", line 597, in _send_output
File "Q:\python\python23.zlib\httplib.py", line 576, in send
File "<string>", line 1, in sendall
IOError
:
[Errno socket error] (10057, 'Socket is not connected')





"Alan Kennedy" <alanmk at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9bUtf.3962$j7.88355 at news.indigo.ie...
> [livin]
>> I'm not a coder really at all (I dabble with vbscript & jscript) but an 
>> asking for help to get this working.
>>
>> I have tried this...
>>
>>       params = urllib.urlencode({'action': 'hs.ExecX10ByName "Kitchen 
>> Espresso Machine", "On", 100'})
>>       urllib.urlopen("http://192.168.1.11:80/hact/kitchen.asp", params)
>
> You should try to phrase your question so that it is easier for us to 
> understand what is going wrong, and thus help you to correct it.
>
> As Mike already suggested, you have a string that may be spread over two 
> lines, which would be illegal python syntax, and which would give a 
> SyntaxError if run. You should be sure that this is not the cause of your 
> problem before going further.
>
> The following code should do the same as the above, but not suffer from 
> the line breaks problem.
>
> name_value_pairs = {
>   'action': 'hs.ExecX10ByName "Kitchen Espresso Machine", "On", 100'
> }
> params = urllib.urlencode(name_value_pairs)
> urllib.urlopen("http://192.168.1.11:80/hact/kitchen.asp", params)
>
> BTW, it looks to me like you may be opening up a security hole in your 
> application. The following string looks very like a VB function 
> invocation: 'hs.ExecX10ByName "Kitchen Espresso Machine", "On", 100'
>
> Are you executing the contents of form input fields as program code? 
> That's highly inadvisable from a security point of view.
>
> Happy New Year.
>
> -- 
> alan kennedy
> ------------------------------------------------------
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