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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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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Http
oleobject loo_Req
oleobject loo_Resp

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Http = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Http.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Http")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Http
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

loo_Req = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Req.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.HttpRequest")

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

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

loo_Resp = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Resp.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")

li_Success = loo_Http.HttpReq("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",loo_Req,loo_Resp)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Http.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Http
    destroy loo_Req
    destroy loo_Resp
    return
end if

// 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>


destroy loo_Http
destroy loo_Req
destroy loo_Resp