Question

Hello everybody (first post here).

I am trying to send data to a webpage. This webpage request two fields (a file and an e-mail address) if everything is ok the webpage returns a page saying “everything is ok” and sends a file to the provided e-mail address. I execute the code below and I get nothing in my e-mail account.

import urllib, urllib2

params = urllib.urlencode({'uploaded': open('file'),'email': '[e-mail]'})
req = urllib2.urlopen('http://webpage.com', params)
print req.read()

the print command gives me the code of the home page (I assume instead it should give the code of the “everything is ok” page).

I think (based o google search) the poster module should do the trick but I need to keep dependencies to a minimum, hence I would like a solution using standard libraries (if that is possible).

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks everybody for your answers. I solve my problem using the mechanize library.

import mechanize 

br = mechanize.Browser()
br.open('webpage.com') 

email='[e-mail]'

br.select_form(nr=0) 
br['email'] = email 
br.form.add_file(open('filename'), 'mime-type', 'filename')    
br.form.set_all_readonly(False) 
br.submit()