Truoble With A Search Script for ImageBin.org

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18Mar2010 22:43, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
| Brandon Conner wrote:
| > I'm trying to develop a script that will return the results of a POST
| > request that should list all images uploaded by a user.  However, when i
| > run the script, i get returned the HTML of the page with the search
| > form.  I am wondering what am i doing incorrectly?  Is it something I'm
| > doing or is the imagebin server rejecting my request?
| > 
| > here's the code:
| > 
| > import urllib
| > import urllib2
| > url = 'http://imagebin.org/index.php?page=search'
| > values = {'search_for' : 'blah', 'field' : 'Nickname'}
| > data = urllib.urlencode(values)
| > request = urllib2.Request(url, data)
| > response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
| > page = response.read()
| > print page
| > 
| > tks, pythons great
| > 
| You need to tell the browser (in an HTTP header) that what you are
| sending is HTML. Try putting
| 
| print "Content-Type: text/html\n"
| 
| at the start of your script.

I think it may need to be "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", not
text/html. But otherwise, yes, missing Content-Type.

And the request method needs to be POST; I expect the code above will be
using GET unless told not to.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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