HTTP post with urllib2

[cerr]

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 4:08:34 PM UTC-7, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, cerr <ron.eggler at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> >
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> > Why does this code:
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> >
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> > #!/usr/bin/python
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> >
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> >
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> > import urllib2
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> > from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify
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> >
> 
> > host = "localhost"
> 
> > uri="/test.php"
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> > 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'
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> 
> 
> What does the above line do? is it the same as req.get_method = 'PUT'

I guess so, I got this from an example.... copy & paste :x

> 
> > response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120)
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> 
> 
> the docs say req should be a url.  Is it?

no, it's an instance of req = urllib2.Request()
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> > retval = response.read()
> 
> > print "RETVAL "+retval
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> > return me this:
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> >
> 
> > ./post.py
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
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> >   File "./post.py", line 13, in <module>
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> >     response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120)
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> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
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> >     return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
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> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 398, in open
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> >     req = meth(req)
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> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1116, in do_request_
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> >     'Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
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> >
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> >
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> > I don't get it, what's going on here?
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> >
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> > Thank you!
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> > --
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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/

But there must be a way to get this working with urllib alone...