"""
Test a weblog server to see if it can handle trackbacks encoded in various
character sets (default being utf-8).
"""

import urllib2,sys
from urllib import urlencode

if len(sys.argv)==1:
  print "Usage: python %s TrackBackPingUrl [encoding]" % sys.argv[0]
  sys.exit(0)

encoding = (sys.argv+['utf-8'])[2]

data=u'I\u00F1t\u00EBrn\u00E2ti\u00F4n\u00E0liz\u00E6ti\u00F8n'

# construct the Trackback parameters
arg = {}
arg['title'] = 'I18n trackback test'
arg['excerpt'] = data.encode(encoding)
arg['url'] = "http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2004/06/30/Unicode-Enabled-Trackbacks"
arg['blog_name'] = 'Sam Ruby'

# construct the HTTP request
request = urllib2.Request(sys.argv[1])
request.add_header("User-agent",
    "http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/06/30/testTrackBackCharset.py")
request.add_header("Content-type", 
  "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset="+encoding)

# issue the request
print urllib2.urlopen(request, urlencode(arg)).read()