cgi post question

[Felicia Neff]

Thanks, I was pointed to:

urlpost.py at http://starship.python.net/~jjkunce/ 

which uses urllib and solves my problem.  :)
-- Felicia


On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Felicia Neff <fn at panix.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to write a CGI script that takes input from a POST, modifies
> > some of the input and then POSTs that info to another CGI script.  I know
> > that perl has a function that will do this.  Is there such a function in
> > python (and if it is do_POST() from the CGIHTTPServer module, is there any
> > more documentation besides that at
> > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html?)?
> 
> CGIHTTPServer is a web server implementation.  you're
> probably more helped by the urllib client library:
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html
> 
> import urllib
> ...
> result = urllib.urlopen(myurl, mydata)
> 
> (currently limited to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> posts, by some strange reason).
> 
> hope this helps!
> 
> </F>
> 
> 


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