Do a POST request on a URL, print status, headers and response body.

post.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib
import sys
from urlparse import urlparse


def post(url, params):
    r = urlparse(url)
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(r.netloc)
    pathquery = r.path
    if r.query:
        pathquery = pathquery + '?' + r.query
    conn.request("POST", pathquery, params)
    res = conn.getresponse()
    print res.status, res.reason
    for k, v in res.getheaders():
        print k+': '+v
    print
    print res.read()
    conn.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
        url = sys.argv[1]
        params = ''
        if len(sys.argv) > 2:
            params = sys.argv[2]
        post(url, params)