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greetings,

are there any restrictions on custom profile forms for receiving post data from a non-standard client?  we want to preprocess form data before passing it off to the custom profile form, and we are using a python application for data verification.  the application sends the data off to the form after everything is checked for errors.  to do this we use python's urllib and urllib2.  as a test, i created a simple profile form with 3 fields: first_name, last_name, email-Primary.  when i send data off to it via urllib, it seems like the form accepts the data but will not process it.  the reply page shows you the form with all fields completed with the data that was sent.  that is, you see in the text fields value="jane" for example for the firstname field. 

our setup:

civicrm 1.7
php5.0.5
mysql 4.1
apache 2.0.55
redhat ent 4

thanks in advance.

yours,

steve

thanks donald.  that was exactly what we needed.  as a related note, it helps to include the postURL value as well.