I'm trying to use the requests module in Python to handle a cgi and can't work out what I've done wrong.
I've tried to use Google Dev Tools in Chrome to provide the right params and data but I've not quite fixed it.
The site I'm trying to get data from is: http://staffordshirebmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi
Here's my code
import requests
headers = {"Accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8",
"Accept-Encoding":"gzip,deflate,sdch",
"Accept-Language":"en-US,en;q=0.8",
"Cache-Control":"no-cache",
"Connection":"keep-alive",
"Content-Length":"124",
"Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
"DNT":"1",
"Host":"staffordshirebmd.org.uk",
"Origin":"http://staffordshirebmd.org.uk",
"Pragma":"no-cache",
"Referer":"http://staffordshirebmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi?county=staffordshire",
"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25"}
payload = {"county":"staffordshire",
"lang": "",
"year_date":"1837",
"search_region":"All",
"sort_by":"alpha",
"csv_or_list":"screen",
"letter":"A",
"submit":"Display Indexes"}
f = requests.put(path, data=payload, headers=headers)
f.text
This provides the response:
u'<html>\n<body>\n<div>\n<p>\nThe Bookmark you have used to reach this page is not valid.\n</p>\n<p>\nPlease click <a href="http://staffordshirebmd.org.uk/">here</a> to return to the main page and reset your\nbookmark to that page.\n</p>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n\n'
What am I doing wrong?