HTTP post with urllib2

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM, cerr <ron.eggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> > 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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>> > import urllib2
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>> > from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify
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>> >
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>> > host = "localhost"
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>> > uri="/test.php"
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>> > data ="\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x57\x6F\x72\x6C\x64" #Hello World
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>> > url="http://{0}{1}?f=test".format(host, uri)
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>> > req = urllib2.Request(url, data,{'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'})
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>> > 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

That's not a very good answer!  Honest, but really.  Just because you
can cut and paste, doesn't mean you are learning to program.
>
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>> > response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120)
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>> the docs say req should be a url.  Is it?
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> no, it's an instance of req = urllib2.Request()
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>> > retval = response.read()
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>> > 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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>> >
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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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>> > I don't get it, what's going on here?
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>> >
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>> > Thank you!
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>>
>> KInda of ducking your questions, but the requests module is a lot
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>> easier to use and
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>> understand:http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
>
> But there must be a way to get this working with urllib alone...

I'm sure there is.  I'm not a pro at urllib, not even requests but
when I have used it, it made a lot more sense.

It got changed in python 3, so the python core group seemed not to
like how the earlier modules worked.

At any rate.  wait a while.  Someone on the list will give you more
specific advice I'm sure
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