'''
Richard Burns
November 28, 2010

Test script which passes information to the class apache server via the POST method.

The server script currently captures this information and appends it to a testing
output file, demonstrating one way that we can pass data to the server for it to 
record.

Taken from:
http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html

TODO: test size limitations of the POST
'''

import httplib, urllib

#params = urllib.urlencode({'milk': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
params = urllib.urlencode({'data': "test data from python again"});

headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
                "Accept": "text/plain"}

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("cisc367.acad.cis.udel.edu:80")

#conn.request("POST", "/cgi-bin/query", params, headers)
conn.request("POST", "/post-server.php", params, headers)

response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, response.reason
data = response.read()
conn.close()