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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:37:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Communicating with a PHP script (and pretending I'm a browser)
From: Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I would tend to agree, but that's not what my client wants. Also, it's
A LOT of PHP code so it does make some small amount of sense.