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How can I duplicate the action of a browser POSTing form data to a server?

Jun 13th, 2000 04:39
unknown unknown, Cliff Crawford

urlopen() takes an optional second argument, which is the data to post.
For example:

urlopen("http://example.org/test.cgi", urlencode({name: "Cliff", id:
"4"})

Also, you might want to take a look at the library reference for urllib:
<http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html>