How to pass parameter to Url with Python urlopen

Question

I'm currently new to python programming. My problem is that my python program doesn't seem to pass/encode the parameter properly to the ASP file that I've created. This is my sample code:

import urllib.request

url = 'http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp'
full_url = url + "?data='" + str(sentData).replace("'", '"').replace(" ", "%20").replace('"', "%22") + "'"
print (full_url)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(full_url)
print(response)

the output would give me something like:

http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp?data='{%22mykey%22:%20[{%22idno%22:%20%22id123%22,%20%22name%22:%20%22ej%22}]}'

The asp file is suppose to insert the acquired querystring to a database.. But whenever I check my database, no record is saved. Though if I do copy and paste the printed output on my browser url, the record is saved. Any input on this? TIA

Update: Is it possible the python calls my ASP File A but it doesn't call my ASP File B? ASP File A is called by python while ASP File B is called by ASP File A. Because whenever I run the url on a browser, the saving goes well. But in python, no saving of database occurs even though the data passed from python is read by ASP File A..

Answer 1

Use firebug with Firefox and watch the network traffic when the page is loaded. If it is actually an HTTP POST, which I suspect it is, check the post parameters on that post and do something like this:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib

post_params = {
              'param1' : 'val1',
              'param2' : 'val2',
              'param3' : 'val3'
              }
post_args = urllib.urlencode(post_params)

url = 'http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp'
fp = urllib.urlopen(url, post_args)
soup = BeautifulSoup(fp)

If its actually HTTP POST, this will work.