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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:54:52 +1100
Subject: Re: Communicating with a PHP script (and pretending I'm a browser)
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some way python can communicate like curl ... it needs to
> send the request string in the body of a POST request to the URL that
> will route to the PHP script and get the output back.

That is possible, but probably more effort than it's worth. It'll
likely be easier to just do the translation all at once.

ChrisA