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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bool success = false;

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

Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();

Chilkat.HttpRequest req = new Chilkat.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";

Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = new Chilkat.HttpResponse();
success = http.HttpReq("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",req,resp);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  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>