Submitting to a web form using python

Question

I have seen questions like this asked many many times but none are helpful

Im trying to submit data to a form on the web ive tried requests, and urllib and none have

Answer 1

import urllib
import urllib2

url = 'http://www.someserver.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi'
values = {'name' : 'Michael Foord',
      'location' : 'Northampton',
      'language' : 'Python' }

data = urllib.urlencode(values)
req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req) 
the_page = response.read()

This makes a POST request with the data specified in the values. we need urllib to encode the url and then urllib2 to send a request.