How do I use Python's httplib to send a POST to a URL, with a dictionary of parameters?

Question

I just want a function that can take 2 parameters:

• the URL to POST to
• a dictionary of parameters

How can this be done with httplib? thanks.

Answer 1

A simpler one, using just urllib:

import urllib
params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/query", params)
print f.read()

Found in Python docs for urllib module