[Jython-users] RE: Testing Servlets with Jython

[Fontanel, L. <Lau...@gl...>]

Robert,

You can just use the Python httplib module. It works great.
The documentation says:

	import httplib, urllib
	params = urllib.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
	h = httplib.HTTP("www.musi-cal.com:80")
	h.putrequest("POST", "/cgi-bin/query")
	h.putheader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
	h.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(params))
	h.putheader('Accept', 'text/plain')
	h.putheader('Host', 'www.musi-cal.com')
	h.endheaders()
	h.send(params)
	reply, msg, hdrs = h.getreply()
	print reply # should be 200
	data = h.getfile().read() # get the raw HTML 

I've modified this script to do exactly what you're trying to do.
The two main gotchas are:

- setting the content type to what your servlet is expecting.
- setting the content length correctly.

If you're using XML-RPC, set the content type to "text/xml".

Hope this helps,
 
Laurent Fontanel
http://www.globalcrossing.com