How to transmit a crash report ?

[Stef Mientki]

hello,

in my python desktop applications,
I'ld like to implement a crash reporter.
By redirecting the sys.excepthook,
I can detect a crash and collect the necessary data.
Now I want that my users sends this information to me,
and I can't find a good way of doing this.

The following solutions came into my mind:
(most of my users are on Windows, and the programs are written in Python 
2.6)

1. mailto:
doesn't work if the the user didn't install a default email client,
or if the user uses a portable email client (that isn't started yet)
Besides this limits the messages to small amounts of data.

2.other mail options: smtp
AFAIK such a solution needs smtp authorization, and therefor I've to put 
my username and password in the desktop application.

3. http-post
Although post is also limited in size,
I could store information in cookies (don't know yet how), and cookies 
are sent parallel to the post message.
On the server site I can use a small php script, that stores the 
post-data, cookies and/or send's a (long) email.

are there better options ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

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