PHP

Send HTTP POST using non-UTF8 such as Windows-1250

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Demonstrates how to specify the character encoding (charset) to be used for the body of an HTTP POST. Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Http;
use Chilkat2\HttpRequest;
use Chilkat2\HttpResponse;
use Chilkat2\JsonObject;

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

$http = new Http();

$req = new HttpRequest();

// Load a JSON file containing strings with Polish chars.
$json = new JsonObject();
try {
    $json->LoadFile('qa_data/json/has_polish_chars.json');

    // Add the request params expected by the server-side:
    $req->AddParam('tytul', $json->StringOf('tytul'));
    $req->AddParam('tresc', $json->StringOf('tresc'));

    // Indicate we wish to explicitly send the charset attribute in the HTTP request header.
    $req->SendCharset = true;

    // Send the POST
    // You can send the POST to the URL below.  It will respond with the request body in quoted-printable format.
    // Using quoted-printable, we can easily see the binary bytes for the accented chars.

    $req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
    $req->ContentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';

    $resp = new HttpResponse();
    $http->HttpReq('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/echoPost.cshtml', $req, $resp);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $http->LastHeader, "\n";
echo $resp->BodyStr, "\n";

// Sample output:

// --------------------------------------------------
// POST /echoPost.cshtml HTTP/1.1
// Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
// Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
// Content-Length: 79
//
// <pre>tytul=3DPrzyk%C5%82ad&amp;tresc=3DPrzyk%C5%82ad
// %82oszenie</pre>
// --------------------------------------------------

// We can see by the %C5%82 that utf-8 was sent, because %C5%82 is the 2-byte representation of a particular Polish char.

// -----------------------
// However.. we can change the charset used for the HTTP request by specifying the request object's charset.

$req->SendCharset = true;
$req->Charset = 'windows-1250';
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->ContentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';

try {
    $http->HttpReq('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/echoPost.cshtml', $req, $resp);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $http->LastHeader, "\n";
echo $resp->BodyStr, "\n";

// Sample output...
// You can see how the bytes used for the Polish chars are now 1-byte per char (i.e. using Windows-1250)

// --------------------------------------------------
// POST /echoPost.cshtml HTTP/1.1
// Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
// Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=windows-1250
// Content-Length: 70
//
// <pre>tytul=3DPrzyk%B3ad&amp;tresc=3DPrzyk%B3ad
// e</pre>
// --------------------------------------------------