Hi,

I am moving some code over to use pycurl (great library btw, thanks!!)
but I am having difficulty replacing a section of code using pycurl. The
old code/algorithm looks as something along the lines of:

connection = HTTPConnection(host)
connection.putheader("POST", "URLTOPOSTTO")
connection.putheader("content-type", "text/xml")
connection.putheader("Content-length", str(len(mydata)))
connectino.putheader("mycustomheader", "mycustomvalue")
connection.endheaders()
connection.send(data)

...

then I get the reply and in this case, it is "data" to download/read off
of the socket.

I need/want to use pycurl to get round some proxy/ssl issues which it
handles beautifully for me in other areas. However, I am stuck on 2
questions/issues:

#1: it seems to set the HTTPPOST, my data needs to be in the form of a
list with field, data... This is not the case for me.

#2: will a registered WRITEFUNCTION get the data requested via my post
and custom header? Basically, the post contains an "action" to be
peformed by the remote. When finished, it writes back the data,
including content-type and length and based on that I read the data.

Some curl psuedocode that I was working with:

class Test:
     def myfunction():
         ...
c = pycurl.Curl()
t = Test()
c.setopt(c.URL, 'url_posting_to')
# insecure for now..
c.setopt(c.SSL_VERIFYPEER, False)
c.setopt(c.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1)
c.setopt(c.PROXY, 'proxy')
# tunnel to get to secure site.
c.setopt(c.HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, True)
c.setopt(c.VERBOSE, 1)
# mydata is a python string object...
c.setopt(c.HTTPPOST, mydata)
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, t.myfunction)
c.perform()
c.close()

I will keep fishing/digging, but any help is appreciated.

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