Submit form, open result in a browser
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Fri Jul 27 05:53:10 EDT 2007
Tina I schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to submit a form and then open the resulting page in the
> default browser? (Writing the form submission code is not a problem by
> the way)
> I guess what I'm asking is how I can get the resulting URL and feed it
> to the webbrowser module.
> I need to do it this way because the site owners will not let me parse
> the page and show the result inside my application... loss of
> advertising revenue I guess. And since it's just a small added feature
> to the application, opening it in a browser is fine. I just need to get
> an idea on how to do it...
That's not how HTTP works. Either you use e.g. urllib to make a http
call and save the resulting html into a temporary file - and then you
point your webbrowser to that.
Or you open the webbrowser with the url + parameters.
But there is no "result url"
Diez
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