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Trying to POST using a HTTP POST-request in python

I am trying to post two parameters using HTTP POST-request to http://foo.bar.com/submit.jsp.

This works.

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.bar.com")
conn.request("POST", "",parameters)

But this does not, could someone explain to me why it does not and how the correct way is?

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.foo.bar.com")
conn.request("POST", "/submit.jsp", parameters)

I am getting this error

File "example.py", line 68, in <module>
    conn.request("POST", "/submit.jsp", parameters)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 958, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 992, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 757, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Thanks in advance

Solution

  • Whatever hostname you are really using in place of www.foo.bar.com can not be resolved to an IP address. Note that your first example used www.bar.com, not www.foo.bar.com. While these are only examples, the second hostname that you are using is bad.

    The path /submit.jsp is not the problem here, if that is what you are actually trying to test?