title: How do I use Python's httplib to send a POST to a URL, with a dictionary of parameters?
body: <p>I just want a function that can take 2 parameters:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>the URL to POST to</li>
  <li>a dictionary of parameters</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>How can this be done with httplib? thanks.</p>