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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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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

http = chilkat2.Http()

req = chilkat2.HttpRequest()

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

# Send the POST
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

resp = chilkat2.HttpResponse()
success = http.HttpReq("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",req,resp)
if (success == False):
    print(http.LastErrorText)
    sys.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>