HTTP Post Request

[Kushal Kumaran]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, kaklis at gmail.com <kaklis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 10:56 am, "kak... at gmail.com" <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 11, 5:06 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt... at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:26 PM, kak... at gmail.com <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On May 10, 10:22 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt... at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, kak... at gmail.com <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > Hi to all, i want to ask you a question, concerning the best way to do
>> > >> > the following as a POST request:
>> > >> > There is server-servlet that accepts xml commands
>> > >> > It had the following HTTP request headers:
>>
>> > >> >            Host: somehost.com
>> > >> >            User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient
>> > >> >            Content-Type: text/xml
>> > >> >            Content-Length: 415
>>
>> > >> > and the following request body (reformatted here for clarity):
>>
>> > >> >            <?xml version='1.0'?>
>> > >> >            <methodCall>
>> > >> >              <methodName>search</methodName>
>> > >> >            </methodCall>
>> > >> > How can i send the above to the Listener Servlet?
>> > >> > Thanks in advance
>>
>> > >> Use the xmlrpclib module.
>>
>> > > OK, sending headers with xmlrpclib,
>> > > but how do i send the XML message?
>>
>> > Your XML message is an XML RPC message.  You will use xmlrpclib like this:
>>
>> > server_proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(('somehost.com', 80))
>> > result = server_proxy.search()
>>
>> > The call to server_proxy.search will result in an actual XML RPC
>> > message being sent.
>>
>> > Read up on the xmlrpclib documentation here:http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html, and the XMLRPC spec
>> > here:http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
>>
>>
>> Ok I got it!
>> Thank you!!!
>>
>> A.K
>
> Apparently the server i'm trying to connect accepts only POST
> connections. So xmlrpclib is useless.
> I think I need the httplib library module.
>
> Any hints?
>

I don't understand.  xmlrpclib sends POST requests only.  Are you
getting an exception?  If so, please post the entire stack trace.

If you want to send the data "by hand", use the httplib module.  you
can pass your XML to the HTTPConnection.request method as the "body"
argument.

-- 
regards,
kushal