Get and Post in Mail Service

[Zeynel]

Hello,

I am trying to send email by using the examples in the tutorial:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/overview.html


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class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):

message = mail.EmailMessage(sender="sen...@gmail.com",
subject="test email from app")
message.to = "rece...@gmail.com"
message.body = "Hello"

message.send()

def post(self):
user_address = "rece...@gmail.com"

confirmation_url = "http://support.example.com/"
sender_address = "sen...@gmail.com"
subject = "confirm your registration"
body = "Click on the link %s " % confirmation_url

mail.send_mail(sender_address, user_address, subject, body)
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The first version works; but the second one works only if I change it
to "get":

def get(self):
user_address = "a...@gmail.com"
....

Can anyone explain how get and post work in this context. Thanks!

[Erick Fleming]

what's your form and routing code look like?

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[Zeynel]

On Nov 18, 4:45 pm, Erick Fleming <efleming...@gmail.com> wrote:
> what's your form and routing code look like?

Hi Erick,

That's the entire code. I hardcoded the emails; there is no form; I am
just trying to make sending/receiving email work.

For routing I have this:

application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
[('/', MainPage),
],
debug=True)

[Robert Kluin]

It probably only works using the get method because you are making the
request by typing to the url into your browser.

Robert

[Erick Fleming]

Robert is correct. You either need to have an HTML form in order to
create a POST request, or you could use a program like curl from the
command line.

[Zeynel]

On Nov 18, 11:23 pm, Erick Fleming <efleming...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert is correct.  You either need to have an HTML form in order to
> create a POST request, or you could use a program like curl from the
> command line.

Thanks, Erick and Robert! I included the form
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/6cf068bf534e128c?hl=en#
and now it works.