[Zope] Calling https urls from python script

Hello, Yesterday I asked on this list if anyone knew how to call a https url from a python script. Some nice soul told me to take a look at the urllib2. So I am doing that right now ... it has a class named HTTPSHandler() which seems to do the job .. Now I'm not very much into "cryptic" python so is anyone kind to explain what this snip from the documentation means: https_open(req) Send an HTTPS request, which can be either GET or POST, depending on req.has_data(). Okay .. I know I must call HTTPSHandler.https_open(req_argument) but what is the req_argument) ? And how do I specify that the call must use the POST method ?? TIA, Gitte Wange