curl-and-python

Re: PycURL form posting

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:02:46 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Jo Pettitt wrote:

> I have been writing a script to automate the creation of page on my Drupal
> site. When it comes to posting text into the various fields I am having
> problems getting text with spaces to be posted on the form. If I change all
> spaces to %20 then echo the string out prior ro posting all of the character
> codes are removed and the text will appear with no spaces in it at all.
>
> Is there a simple way of keeping hte spaces within my cURL post?

Regular HTTP POST contents are meant to be URL-encoded, so yes then you need
to encode plain spaces to %20. Some receiving ends may still understand and
deal with plain spaces in the content though.

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