Re: Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour

2010-12-29 Thread Octavian Rasnita
W::Mechanize similarly to urllib. Nice. :-) Octavian - Original Message - From: "Karra" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python To: Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:35 PM Subject: Re: Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour On Dec 29, 3:57 pm,

Re: Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour

2010-12-29 Thread Karra
On Dec 29, 3:57 pm, Karra wrote: > Can someone point me to how I can get the default LWP:UserAgent > behaviour of handling this scenario using urllib2? Out of frustration, I decided to give 'mechanize' a try. It came as an awesome surprise that mechanize implements the exact api of urllib2 - mea

Making urllib2's POST 302 handle same as Perl LWP's behaviour

2010-12-29 Thread Karra
I am doing a POST to a webserver and get a 302 Found response (redirect). urllib2's default behaviour is to do a GET on the new url from the Location: URI in the 302 response. This is different from what I have found with LWP::UserAgent- >request() in perl. After much searching I understand there