HTTP post with urllib2

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, cerr <ron.eggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why does this code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
>
> import urllib2
> from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify
>
> host = "localhost"
> uri="/test.php"
> data ="\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x57\x6F\x72\x6C\x64" #Hello World
> url="http://{0}{1}?f=test".format(host, uri)
> req = urllib2.Request(url, data,{'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'})
> req.get_method = lambda: 'PUT'

What does the above line do? is it the same as req.get_method = 'PUT'
> response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120)

the docs say req should be a url.  Is it?
> retval = response.read()
> print "RETVAL "+retval
>
>
>
> return me this:
>
> ./post.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./post.py", line 13, in <module>
>     response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 398, in open
>     req = meth(req)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1116, in do_request_
>     'Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
>
>
> I don't get it, what's going on here?
>
> Thank you!
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KInda of ducking your questions, but the requests module is a lot
easier to use and
understand:http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/



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Joel Goldstick
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