--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import httplib
+import os
+import sys
+import urllib
+from urlparse import urljoin
+
+paste_host = 'paste.ubuntu.com'
+paste_path = ''
+
+def http_post_form_with_auth(host, path, form):
+ form_data = urllib.urlencode(form).strip()
+ connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
+ connection.request('POST', path, form_data, {
+ 'Host': host,
+ 'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
+ 'Content-length': str(len(form_data)),
+ })
+ return connection.getresponse()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ poster = os.environ.get("USER")
+ syntax = 'text'
+ if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+ title = sys.argv[1]
+ else:
+ title = "The loser %s didn't even add a title" % poster
+ form = (('poster', poster), ('title', title), ('syntax', syntax), ('content', sys.stdin.read()))
+ response = http_post_form_with_auth(paste_host, paste_path, form)
+ location = response.getheader('Location')
+ if location:
+ print urljoin('http://' + paste_host, location)
+ else:
+ print 'Unexpected response:\n%s' % response.getheaders()