[twill] posting without a form?

[Ian Bicking]

Titus Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 04:03:46PM -0800, iain duncan wrote:
> -> Hey guys, wondering if I can do an arbitrary post from twill using all
> -> the handy shortcuts if the form I want to pretend to be does *not*
> -> exist.
> -> 
> -> Ie, from a python method I want to post a set of key/vals to an
> -> arbitrary url, but use twill commands. I didn't see this in the
> -> examples.
> -> 
> -> Thanks!
> -> Iain
> 
> hi Iain,
> 
> I don't know exactly how to do this with twill (or, more importantly,
> with mechanize -- getting twill to do it would be easy, given mechanize
> functionality). It shouldn't be too hard, however.
> 
> Note that this is of great value for testing AJAX code, too.

In case you aren't sure about what it looks like, a POST form is just a 
submission with a url-encode body (assuming you aren't doing file 
uploads, which are harder).

In urllib/urllib2, if you do a POST you give the body as an argument, 
with urllib.urlencode(form_values) as the body.  form_values can be a 
dict, or better a list of (key, value) tuples.


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