Re: How To Create POST data without an actual POST?

Hallöchen!

Margie Roginski writes:

> I'd like to find a way to let my users submit form data without
> submitting it via an actual web form. For example, I have users
> that would like to send their data via email, or perhaps provide
> it in an excel spread sheet,

Maybe you can fool the view functions by providing a request object
which simulates a call from the browser. But if performance is not
an issue, I would create an intermediate program that takes all the
emails and spreadsheets and makes (possibly local) HTTP POST
requests on your server.

This is the way we do it here: A cronjob scans a shared directory
for new data regulary, and when it finds some, it sends an HTTP POST
to the web server, which runs on the same machine.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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