Just started playing with Google App Engine & Python (as an excuse ;)). How do I correctly submit a form like this
<form action="https://www.moneybookers.com/app/payment.pl" method="post" target="_blank">
<input type="hidden" name="pay_to_email" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="status_url"
<!-- etc. -->
<input type="submit" value="Pay!">
</form>
w/o exposing the data to user?
By hiding the sensitive bits of the form and submitting it via JavaScript.
Make sure you have a good way of referring to the form element...
<form ... id="moneybookersForm">...</form>
... and on page load, execute something like
document.getElementById("moneybookersForm").submit();
At least I don't know of other ways. For JavaScript-disabled people, the Pay! button should be kept visible.
It sounds like you're looking for urllib.
Here's an example of POSTing from the library's docs:
>>> import urllib
>>> params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
>>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query", params)
>>> print f.read()