how to send a post request and get the response in ruby
request is,
name=$name_val
URL is http://example.com/a/2
how do i do this in python or ruby?
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A:
To do this in python:
import urllib
data = urllib.urlencode({
"fieldName1" : "Val1",
"fieldName2" : "Val2",
"fieldName3" : "Val3"
})
f = urllib.urlopen("http://example.com/a/2", data)
html = f.read() # this is the response
Martin
2010-07-22 09:59:28
sorry, this did not work, it doesn't display any result.
matt jack
2010-07-22 10:33:33
fieldName is the post name e.g. <input type="hidden" name="fieldName1" value="Val1" />. When this is posted it sends the data to this url http://example.com/a/2 then html = f.read() returns the contents of the html page that would be displayed if you did this through a browser. If you don't have any content on this page then you won't get anything back.
Martin
2010-07-22 10:41:16