From 96c84a4c7d7001af8ac8a38fa7304db669728a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:56:24 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix closes issue12524 - update http.client POST example with a working example. --- Doc/library/http.client.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst index 54873ae3048..3749ff2d800 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst @@ -592,15 +592,17 @@ Here is an example session that uses the ``HEAD`` method. Note that the Here is an example session that shows how to ``POST`` requests:: >>> import http.client, urllib.parse - >>> params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0}) + >>> params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'@number': 12524, '@type': 'issue', '@action': 'show'}) >>> headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", ... "Accept": "text/plain"} - >>> conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("musi-cal.mojam.com:80") - >>> conn.request("POST", "/cgi-bin/query", params, headers) + >>> conn = http.client.HTTPConnection("bugs.python.org") + >>> conn.request("POST", "", params, headers) >>> response = conn.getresponse() >>> print(response.status, response.reason) - 200 OK + 302 Found >>> data = response.read() + >>> data + b'Redirecting to http://bugs.python.org/issue12524' >>> conn.close()