HTTP Post Request

[kaklis at gmail.com]

On May 12, 6:13 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:59 PM, kak... at gmail.com <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 11, 10:56 am, "kak... at gmail.com" <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On May 11, 5:06 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt... at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:26 PM, kak... at gmail.com <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > On May 10, 10:22 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+pyt... at gmail.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM, kak... at gmail.com <kak... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >> > Hi to all, i want to ask you a question, concerning the best way to do
> >> > >> > the following as a POST request:
> >> > >> > There is server-servlet that accepts xml commands
> >> > >> > It had the following HTTP request headers:
>
> >> > >> >            Host: somehost.com
> >> > >> >            User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient
> >> > >> >            Content-Type: text/xml
> >> > >> >            Content-Length: 415
>
> >> > >> > and the following request body (reformatted here for clarity):
>
> >> > >> >            <?xml version='1.0'?>
> >> > >> >            <methodCall>
> >> > >> >              <methodName>search</methodName>
> >> > >> >            </methodCall>
> >> > >> > How can i send the above to the Listener Servlet?
> >> > >> > Thanks in advance
>
> >> > >> Use the xmlrpclib module.
>
> >> > > OK, sending headers with xmlrpclib,
> >> > > but how do i send the XML message?
>
> >> > Your XML message is an XML RPC message.  You will use xmlrpclib like this:
>
> >> > server_proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(('somehost.com', 80))
> >> > result = server_proxy.search()
>
> >> > The call to server_proxy.search will result in an actual XML RPC
> >> > message being sent.
>
> >> > Read up on the xmlrpclib documentation here:http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html, and the XMLRPC spec
> >> > here:http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec
>
> >> Ok I got it!
> >> Thank you!!!
>
> >> A.K
>
> > Apparently the server i'm trying to connect accepts only POST
> > connections. So xmlrpclib is useless.
> > I think I need the httplib library module.
>
> > Any hints?
>
> I don't understand.  xmlrpclib sends POST requests only.  Are you
> getting an exception?  If so, please post the entire stack trace.
>
> If you want to send the data "by hand", use the httplib module.  you
> can pass your XML to the HTTPConnection.request method as the "body"
> argument.
>
> --
> regards,
> kushal

Ok i found it. I sent the xml by hand with httplib module.
i use the last example of http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
and it worked.
Thank you very much for your response.

A.K.