Hit a URL on other server from google app engine

Question

I want to hit a URL from python in google app engine. Can any one please tell me how can i hit the URL using python in google app engine.

Answer 1

You can use the URLFetch API

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

url = "http://www.google.com/"
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
if result.status_code == 200:
  doSomethingWithResult(result.content)

Answer 2

It always depends on post or get. urllib can post to a form somewhere else, if we want the rather tricky thing validate between different hashes (sha and md5)

import urllib             
data = urllib.urlencode({"id" : str(d), "password" : self.request.POST['passwd'], "edit" : "edit"})
result = urlfetch.fetch(url="http://www..../Login.do",
payload=data,
method=urlfetch.POST,
headers={'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
if result.content.find('loggedInOrYourInfo') > 0:                    
  self.response.out.write("clear")                          
else:                
  self.response.out.write("wrong password ")