[Zope] POST from Zope to external server and receive RESPONSE

[David at Sidach]

Hello folks,

I'm sure this question has been answered before but bear
with me - Zope isn't my forte and I couldn't see anything
like the problem I'd like to solve on the Zope list.

I've inherited a project that now needs to post an XML
packet to an ecommerce gateway, ie a user submits, via
a form, credit card details which are posted to a Zope
server. The Zope server then builds an XML packet and
wants to POST to an external server which will send a
RESPONSE.

Can I capture that RESPONSE in Zope or must I use external
methods and something like Python's httplib.

I've done similar things with curl lib and C++, php curl
lib and php.

Any hints folks?

David