import httplib, json
h1 = httplib.HTTPConnection( 'theargentlark.com', 80 )
headers = { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain" }
params = { "user": "david", "type": "open_session"  }
h1.request( 'POST', '/dark-chess-ajax', json.dumps( params ), headers )
r1 = h1.getresponse()
print r1.status, r1.reason
data = r1.read()
print len( data ), data