Off-topic Internet Question

Wed Oct 13 11:42:58 EDT 1999

In article <3804977B.86446175 at strs.co.uk>,
Ian Clarke <I.Clarke at strs.co.uk> wrote:
>>Yes, it can be done. The Python script will need to pretend that it is
>a web browser and submit the form information as a "cgi" request to the
>web server on which the internet page resides. It can do this by
>opening a TCP socket to the web server. You should read up on the HTTP
>protocol (specifically the section on CGI) (and using sockets in
>Python). You will need to determine whether the web page in question
>uses CGI GET or CGI POST. CGI GET is easier to implement as you just
>request a page appending the parameters to the end of the URL. CGI POST
>is a little more involved.

No, it isn't, if you're using urllib:
 urllib.urlopen('http://www.foo.com/script', 'bar=baz')
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