I've written a Script that navigates various urls on a website, and fetches the contents. The Url's are being fed from a list "urlList". Everything seems to work splendidly, until I introduce the concept of encoding parameters for a certain url. So for example if I wanted to navigate to an encoded url http://online.investools.com/landing.iedu?signedin=true rather than just http://online.investools.com/landing.iedu How would I do this? How can I modify the script to urlencode these parameters: {signedin:true} and to associate them with a specific url from the urlList Thank you!
import datetime, time, re, os, sys, traceback, smtplib, string, urllib2, urllib, inspect from urllib2 import build_opener, HTTPCookieProcessor, Request opener = build_opener(HTTPCookieProcessor) from urllib import urlencode def urlopen2(url, data=None, user_agent='urlopen2'): """Opens Our URLS """ if hasattr(data, "__iter__"): data = urlencode(data) headers = {'User-Agent' : user_agent} # User-Agent for Unspecified Browser return opener.open(Request(url, data, headers)) def badCharCheck(host,url): try: page = urlopen2("http://"+host+".investools.com/"+url+"", ()) pageRead= page.read() print "Loading:",url #print pageRead except: print "Failed: ", traceback.format_tb(sys.exc_info()[2]),'\n' if __name__ == '__main__': host= "online" urlList = ["landing.iedu","sitemap.iedu"] print "\n","***** Begin BadCharCheck for", host for url in urlList: badCharCheck(host,url) print'***** TEST FINISHED! Total Runs:' sys.exit() OUTPUT: ***** Begin BadCharCheck for online Loading: landing.iedu Loading: sitemap.iedu ***** TEST FINISHED! Total Runs: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list