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Sending an HTTP POST Request from a Python Script

import httplib def printText(txt):     lines = txt.split('\n')     for line in lines:         print line.strip() httpServ = httplib.HTTPConnection("127.0.0.1", 80) httpServ.connect() quote = "test" httpServ.request('POST', '/cgi_form.cgi', 'name=Brad&quote=%s' % quote) response = httpServ.getresponse() if response.status == httplib.OK:     print "Output from CGI request"     printText (response.read()) httpServ.close()