Python Web Scraping - How to submit post information

Question

I found another post in which I couldn't figure out part of an answer:

a (presumably basic) web scraping of http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi in urllib

The top answer says that the user used Firebug in order to figure out the different parameters that were being passed by inspecting the network activity.

I can't figure out how to do this or where I can see this. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

1. download and install firebug
2. browse to the page that include the form you want
3. right click and choose Inspect Element with Firebug
4. go to net panel,you may have to activate it and reload the page on first use

see firebug net panel wiki page

you'd usually hit the clear button before pressing the form submit