Visual FoxPro

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loReq
LOCAL loResp

lnSuccess = 0

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

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

loReq = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpRequest')

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

* Send the POST
loReq.HttpVerb = "POST"
loReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpReq("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",loReq,loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loReq
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* 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>

RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loReq
RELEASE loResp