From 9fa4d61bccc96ee2cc9d11b843baf83ba3bc503d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 01:06:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Moshe Zadka : Documentation updates for urlretrieve() and URLopener.retrieve(), to reflect Randall Hopper's patch for those functions. This closes SourceForge patch #100837. --- Doc/lib/liburllib.tex | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex index 041863dd4bc..3eb126549b6 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ count of blocks transferred so far, a block size in bytes, and the total size of the file. The third argument may be \code{-1} on older FTP servers which do not return a file size in response to a retrieval request. + +If the \var{url} uses the \file{http:} scheme identifier, the optional +\var{data} argument may be given to specify a \code{POST} request +(normally the request type is \code{GET}). The \var{data} argument +must in standard \file{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format; +see the \function{urlencode()} function below. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{urlcleanup}{} @@ -288,6 +294,12 @@ path component of the input URL. If \var{reporthook} is given, it must be a function accepting three numeric parameters. It will be called after each chunk of data is read from the network. \var{reporthook} is ignored for local URLs. + +If the \var{url} uses the \file{http:} scheme identifier, the optional +\var{data} argument may be given to specify a \code{POST} request +(normally the request type is \code{GET}). The \var{data} argument +must in standard \file{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format; +see the \function{urlencode()} function below. \end{methoddesc}