python - webdriver - post request

[bruce]

Hi.

Can anyone point to code/sites/etc on how to implement a POST request
in selenium.

I'd prefer something with a basic example, but I'll deal with what I can.

Selenium with GET is trivial, but can't see how to do the POST.

Thanks

[Andreas Tolfsen]

bruce <bado...@gmail.com> writes:

> Can anyone point to code/sites/etc on how to implement a POST request
> in selenium.

WebDriver doesn’t interact at the HTTP request level. To do that you
might be interested in libcurl or similar.

[bruce]

wth!!

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5)


url='http://austin.bncollege.com'

out=driver.get(url) <<<<< this performs the http 'GET'

where/how does one do a similar "POST"

not sure what the person who answered is discussing...





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[Jim Evans]

The method is named the same as the HTTP verb, but as Andreas (ato) said, it's not a perfect correlation. WebDriver doesn't perform the HTTP request directly; it instructs the browser to do so. There is no corresponding `post()` method in the WebDriver API. You'll need to instruct the browser to perform the POST operation however you would normally do that as a user. Typically, this is done by clicking on some element on a page, or submitting a form. If you need finer grained control than that, and are expecting to directly manipulate the HTTP request being sent to the server, WebDriver isn't the right library for that.