Cannot get POST to work

[Falcolas]

On Sep 29, 10:24 am, "tedpot... at gmail.com" <tedpot... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to post data to a short test script in php I wrote.
> The python code to do the post is
> import httplib
>
> #server address
> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost")
>
> #file location
> conn.request("POST", "/programming/bots/test.php","&ted=fred")
> r1 = conn.getresponse()
> print r1.status, r1.reason
> data1 = r1.read()
> print data1
> conn.close()
> print "new ok"
>
> The PHP script is
> print"hello <br>";
> print $_POST["ted"];
>
> Ted post

I can't speak to what is wrong with your current script - instead I
would recommend the higher level urllib libraries:

(Untested)
import urllib2, urllib

response = urllib2.open("http://localhost/programming/bots/test.php",
urllib.urlencode({"ted": "fred"}))
print response.read()
response.close()

~Garrick