Submitting a post request to an aspx page

Question

I have an ASPX page at https://searchlight.cluen.com/E5/CandidateSearch.aspx with a form on it, that I\'d like to submit and parse for information.

Using Python\'s

Answer 1

I tried mechanize and urllib2, and mechanize handles cookies better. I can submit the form simply by specifying with mechanize:

    browser= mechanize.Browser()
    browser.select_form(form_name)
    browser.set_value("Page$Next", name="pagenumber")     

It was not necessary to replicate the post request manually, and mechanize in this case was able to handle a form that relies on javascript.