httplib example: publish a fanfou status

gistfile1.py

def setcookie2cookie(setcookie):
    cookies = setcookie.split("\n")
    result = []
    for ck in cookies:
        frags = ck.split(";")
        i = frags[0].index("=")
        name = frags[0][:i]
        value = frags[0][i+1:]
        #name = name.replace("+", " ")
        if name.strip():
            result.append([name, value])
    return result

def cookielist2cookiestring(cookie):
    cookies = []
    for i in cookie:
        cookies.extend(setcookie2cookie(i))
    cookiestring = "; ".join(["%s=%s" % (name, value) for name, value in cookies])
    return cookiestring

def setcookie2cookiestring(setcookie):
    cookies = setcookie2cookie(setcookie)
    return '; '.join(['%s=%s' % (name, value) for name, value in cookies])

def test_fanfou_httplib(username, password, status):
    import httplib, re, urllib
    h = httplib.HTTPConnection('m.fanfou.com')
    h.request('GET', 'http://m.fanfou.com/', None, {"Referer": "http://m.fanfou.com/"})
    resp = h.getresponse()
    data = resp.read()
    token = re.search('''name="token".*?value="(.*?)"''', data).group(1)

    post = urllib.urlencode({
        'loginname': username,
        'loginpass': password,
        'action': 'login',
        'token' : token,
        'auto_login': 'on',
    })
    h.request('POST', 'http://m.fanfou.com/home', post, {"Referer": "http://m.fanfou.com/", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"})
    resp = h.getresponse()
    cookiestring = cookielist2cookiestring(resp.msg.getheaders('set-cookie'))
    
    post = urllib.urlencode({
            'content': status,
            'token' : token,
            'action': 'msg.post',
        })
    h.request('POST', 'http://m.fanfou.com/home', post, {"Referer": "http://m.fanfou.com/", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Cookie": cookiestring})
    resp = h.getresponse()
    
    h.close()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    username, password, status = sys.argv[1:4]
    test_fanfou_httplib(username, password, status)