HTTP POST x-www-form-urlencoded

Demonstrates how to send a simple URL encoded POST (content-type = x-www-form-urlencoded). Form params are passed in the HTTP request body in x-www-form-urlencoded format.

Download Chilkat HTTP ActiveX

LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loReq
LOCAL loResp

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loHttp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    QUIT
ENDIF

loReq = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpRequest')

*  Add the request params expected by the server-side:
loReq.AddParam("city","Paris")
loReq.AddParam("country","France")

*  Send the POST  (This is a real URL that may be tested.)

loResp = loHttp.PostUrlEncoded("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",loReq)
IF (loResp = NULL ) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    QUIT
ENDIF

RELEASE loResp

*  The exact HTTP request sent and response received
*  by the example code above is as follows:

*  
---- Sending ----
POST /httpTest/cityCountry.asp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 25

city=Paris&country=France
---- Received ----
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:16:00 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 156
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCDTSSAC=MHJCNFMDENFOKGINOFEDILCM; path=/
Cache-control: private


<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
</head>
<body>

France<br />Paris<br />

</body>
</html>

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