Timothy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm trying to fill the form on page >http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM/ using urllib. > >There are two peculiarities. First of all, I am filling in incorrect >key/value pairs in the parameters on purpose because that's the only >way I can get it to work.. For "version" I am suppose to leave it >unchecked, having value of empty string. And for name "outform" I am >suppose to assign it a value of "-short". Instead, I left out >"outform" all together and fill in "-short" for version. I discovered >the method my accident. > >After I've done that it works fine for small SEQ values. Then, when I >try to send large amount of data (1.4MB), it fails miserably with >AttributeError exception. > >I highly suspect the two problems I have are the result of some bugs >in the urllib module. Any suggestions?
The <form> on that page wants multipart/form-data encoding, where each parameter is embedded in a separate MIME section. That is common with very large data, and is _required_ when the form includes a file upload. urllib doesn't do that. It always sends plain old application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. I think you're going to have to roll your own sender. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
