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.

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use chilkat();

$http = new chilkat::CkHttp();

#  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $http->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$req = new chilkat::CkHttpRequest();

#  Add the request params expected by the server-side:
$req->AddParam("city","Paris");
$req->AddParam("country","France");

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

# resp is a CkHttpResponse
$resp = $http->PostUrlEncoded("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",$req);
if ($resp eq null ) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  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>