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We need to take our 112 data and format it as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" data and use that as a 113 body for a POST request. 114 115 <p> 116 <div class="verbatim"><pre> 117 >>> import httplib2 118 >>> import urllib 119 >>> data = {'name': 'fred', 'address': '123 shady lane'} 120 >>> body = urllib.urlencode(data) 121 >>> body 122 'name=fred&address=123+shady+lane' 123 >>> h = httplib2.Http() 124 >>> resp, content = h.request("http://example.com", method="POST", body=body) 125 </pre></div> 126 127 <p> 128 Here is an example of using a proxy server: 129 <div class="verbatim"><pre> 130 import httplib2 131 import socks 132 133 httplib2.debuglevel=4 134 h = httplib2.Http(proxy_info = httplib2.ProxyInfo(socks.PROXY_TYPE_HTTP, 'localhost', 8000)) 135 r,c = h.request("http://bitworking.org/news/") 136 </pre></div> 137 138 <p> 139 140 <p> 141 <IMG 142 WIDTH="556" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" 143 SRC="img1.png" 144 ALT="\begin{center}\vbox{\input{modref.ind} 145 }\end{center}"> 146 <p> 147 148 <p> 149 150 <div class="navigation"> 151 <div class='online-navigation'> 152 <p></p><hr /> 153 <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> 154 <tr> 155 <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="1.1.3 response Objects" 156 href="response-objects.html"><img src='previous.png' 157 border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></a></td> 158 <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="1.1 httplib2 A comprehensive" 159 href="module-httplib2.html"><img src='up.png' 160 border='0' height='32' alt='Up one Level' width='32' /></a></td> 161 <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="About this document ..." 162 href="about.html"><img src='next.png' 163 border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></a></td> 164 <td align="center" width="100%">The httplib2 Library</td> 165 <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" 166 href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' 167 border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></a></td> 168 <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' 169 border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> 170 <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' 171 border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> 172 </tr></table> 173 <div class='online-navigation'> 174 <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> 175 <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="response-objects.html">1.1.3 Response Objects</a> 176 <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> 177 <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="module-httplib2.html">1.1 httplib2 A comprehensive</a> 178 <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> 179 <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="about.html">About this document ...</a> 180 </div> 181 </div> 182 <hr /> 183 <span class="release-info">Release 0.3, documentation updated on Mar 8, 2007.</span> 184 </div> 185 <!--End of Navigation Panel--> 186 187 </body> 188 </html> 189
