How to pass parameter to Url with Python urlopen
Question: I'm currently new to python programming. My problem is that my python program
doesn't seem to pass/encode the parameter properly to the ASP file that I've
created. This is my sample code:

    
    
    import urllib.request
    
    url = 'http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp'
    full_url = url + "?data='" + str(sentData).replace("'", '"').replace(" ", "%20").replace('"', "%22") + "'"
    print (full_url)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(full_url)
    print(response)
    

the output would give me something like:

    
    
    http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp?data='{%22mykey%22:%20[{%22idno%22:%20%22id123%22,%20%22name%22:%20%22ej%22}]}'
    

The asp file is suppose to insert the acquired querystring to a database.. But
whenever I check my database, no record is saved. Though if I do copy and
paste the printed output on my browser url, the record is saved. Any input on
this? TIA

Update: Is it possible the python calls my ASP File A but it doesn't call my
ASP File B? ASP File A is called by python while ASP File B is called by ASP
File A. Because whenever I run the url on a browser, the saving goes well. But
in python, no saving of database occurs even though the data passed from
python is read by ASP File A..


Answer: Use firebug with Firefox and watch the network traffic when the page is
loaded. If it is actually an HTTP POST, which I suspect it is, check the post
parameters on that post and do something like this:

    
    
    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
    import urllib
    
    post_params = {
                  'param1' : 'val1',
                  'param2' : 'val2',
                  'param3' : 'val3'
                  }
    post_args = urllib.urlencode(post_params)
    
    url = 'http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp'
    fp = urllib.urlopen(url, post_args)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(fp)
    

If its actually HTTP POST, this will work.

