Recommended way to POST with cookies?

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

	According to Google, there seems to be several tools available,
possibly deprecated, to download data from web pages by POSTing forms
and save cookies to maintain state.

I need to write a script under Windows with ActivePython 2.5.1.1  that
would do this:
1. Connect through a local proxy, so I can see the whole dialog
between the Python script and the web server
2. POST form variables
3. Save cookies sent by the server (session cookie to keep state)
4. Save received data into an SQLite file

Which tools would you recommend for this type of script?

Thank you.