Internet Robot

[gscot at my-dejanews.com]

David Steuber:	Thank you for the reply (and Thanks to every one that
replied). It was a big help to read over the rfc 1945 and rfc 2068. It is the
first time that I have every looked at one and they are pretty informative.  
      I can now POST my request but the server is asking for authentication.
You mentioned that it might be helpful to capture and look at the client’s
out put. How do I do that. I am using linux RedHat 5.0. I read in “TCP/IP
Network Administration” from O’Reilly (A great book) and they suggested using
snoop or tcpdump. I could not find a version of snoop for linux. I tried
tcpdump, but it gave me a lot of what looked like Greek to me (I am not at my
own computer or I would add some of  tcpdump produced). I had expected to see
thing in English.	 Thank you again for your previous reply and thanks
in advance for any information you can give me with this.    Gary




In article <m3emluaecc.fsf at solo.david-steuber.com>,
  David Steuber <trashcan at david-steuber.com> wrote:
> gscot at my-dejanews.com writes:
>
> -> To All, 	I would like to write a Python robot to play an Internet
> -> game. I do not know how to make a POST request. Thanks to anyone in advance
> -> that can point me in the right direction.  Gary
>
> There are two ways to post data.  I remember one way, but the other is
> a little trickier.  The simple way is to send up a URL encoded string
> as the body of the request.  The other is to send a multi-part mime
> document.  I suggest you go with the former if possible.  A post would
> look something like this:
>
> POST /URI HTTP/1.0
> Content-Length: octets
> Content-Type: <nuts!  I forget this one!  See the CGI spec>
>
> URL+Encoded+Data+as+name+value+pairs
>
> A good thing to do would be to capture the output of an HTTP client
> posting form data.  Also see RFC-1945 and RFC-2068.
>
> --
> David Steuber
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