File download via Post form

Question

There is a website that has a list of files that I want to download. To ease the process I tried to write a script to do it for me. (Even though I can select multiple option

Answer 1

The line:

req = urllib2.Request('webpage/list.php')

is requesting the original web page, but the form posts data to webpage/data.php. Does this work better?

req = urllib2.Request('webpage/data.php')