Cannot get POST to work

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "tedpottel at gmail.com" <tedpottel at gmail.com> (t) wrote:

>t> Hi,
>t> I'm trying to post data to a short test script in php I wrote.
>t> The python code to do the post is
>t> import httplib

>t> #server address
>t> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("localhost")

headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
            "Accept": "text/plain"}

>t> #file location
>t> conn.request("POST", "/programming/bots/test.php","&ted=fred")

conn.request("POST", "/programming/bots/test.php", "ted=fred", headers)

>t> r1 = conn.getresponse()
>t> print r1.status, r1.reason
>t> data1 = r1.read()
>t> print data1
>t> conn.close()
>t> print "new ok"

>t> The PHP script is
>t> print"hello <br>";
>t> print $_POST["ted"];

>t> Ted post

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