I am using this function and it works great, now I want to use values
from a form (textarea)for the username
and password, this does not work and twitter returns a html 401 so I
guess the values are not in correct format
but I thought they would just be strings???
any help appreciated
chrism

On Nov 29, 10:57 am, murray3 <ch...@murraypost.net> wrote:
> see ammendments and it worked thanks
> urllib2 and request
>
> On Nov 28, 10:47 pm, murray3 <ch...@murraypost.net> wrote:
>
> > def twitter_post(username,password,message):
> >     import urllib, urllib2, base64, gluon.contrib.simplejson
> >     args= urllib.urlencode([('status',message)])
> >     headers={}
> >     headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic '+base64.b64encode(username
> > +':'+password)
> >     request = urllib2.Request('http://twitter.com/statuses/
> > update.json', args, headers)
> >     return  gluon.contrib.simplejson.loads(urllib2.urlopen(request).read
> > ())
>
> > Massimo could you offer some example view code to use this function,
> > regards
> > chrism

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