I got it! You can see the code at the bottom of this post. Sorry for three posts on this question.
I have to run the program one time just to get the dynamically generated redirect URL for the POST (it looks like this) The document has moved <a href="http://www.thenational.us/pages/htmlos/ 001863.1.059070780420726458"> I then paste the redirected URL ("http://www.thenational.us/pages/ htmlos/001863.1.059070780420726458) into the script and run it again and it works. My question now is how do I bypass this manual step and grab the redirect URL automatically without human intervention. In other words, how do I get the python script to find out what the redirect URL is going to be (it is dynamic and times out after 50 minutes if idle) and automatically update the script with the redirect URL? Also, I was able to figured out how to open a file and send the data so almost all my work is done, excect for this pesky URL redirect on the POST. f = open('C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\mydata.txt', 'r') read_data = f.read() f.close() import httplib, urllib params = urllib.urlencode({'textarea1': read_data}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("thenational.us:80") conn.request("POST", "/pages/htmlos/001863.5.083914970120726458", params, headers) response = conn.getresponse() print response.status, response.reason data = response.read() conn.close() f = open('C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\pydata.txt', 'a') f.write(data) f.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
