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Learning Python Networking

You're reading from   Learning Python Networking A complete guide to build and deploy strong networking capabilities using Python 3.7 and Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789958096
Length 490 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Sam Washington Sam Washington
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming FREE CHAPTER
2. Network Programming with Python 3. Programming for the Web with HTTP 4. Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
5. Application Programming Interface in Action 6. Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Scrapy 7. Engaging with Email 8. Interacting with Remote Systems 9. Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
10. Working with IP and DNS 11. Implementing IPv6 and Address Manipulation 12. Performing Network Automation with Python and Ansible 13. Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming
14. Programming with Sockets 15. Designing Servers and Asynchronous Programming 16. Designing Applications on the Web 17. Assessment 18. Another Book You May Enjoy

Handling forms with urllib and requests with Python 3.7

In this section, we will learn how to use urllib and requests to interact with HTML forms.

Handling forms with urllib

When working with forms, it is useful to use the POST method to send data to the server. The POST method is used for submitting user input from HTML forms and for uploading files to a server.

When using POST, the data that we wish to send will go in the body of the request. We can put any bytes data in there and declare its type by adding a Content-Type header to our request with an appropriate MIME type.

Let's look at an example for sending some HTML form data to a server by using a POST request, just as browsers do when we submit a form on a website...

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