urllib2 and POST

[deelan]

Richard A. Jones wrote:

> How do you send a POST to a url? I know how to do this with httplib but how
> do you do this using urllib2. For example:
> 
> import urllib2
> 
> url = http://123.8.37.87:4080/somewhere/something
> f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
> 
> 
> When I attempt this I get HTTP Error 400: HTTP method GET is not supported
> by this URL. Am I missing something?
try this:

url = "http://123.8.37.87:4080/somewhere/something"

data = {'some':'value'}
f = urllib2.urlopen(url, data=data)

if data is not None urllib2 automatically performs a POST
instead of GET.


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