sending to mediawiki-api and bcc'ing wikitech-l; apologies for sending this to the wrong list.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Sun esun@cs.stanford.edu wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some reason it only works with a GET.

This works fine (GET):

...

...

...

req = urllib2.Request('

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=The_Matrix&exp... ')

...

...

...

f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300) print f.read()

...full page output...

This doesn't work (POST):

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req = urllib2.Request('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',

'action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt')

...

...

...

f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300) print f.read()

Array ( [query] => Array ( [normalized] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [from] => The_Matrix [to] => The Matrix )

            )

        [pages] => Array
            (
                [30007] => Array
                    (
                        [pageid] => 30007
                        [ns] => 0
                        [title] => The Matrix
                    )

            )

    )

)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks in advance!