Xbase++

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 nSuccess
LOCAL oHttp
LOCAL oReq
LOCAL oResp

nSuccess := 0

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

oHttp := CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

oReq := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpRequest")

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

//  Send the POST
oReq:HttpVerb := "POST"
oReq:ContentType := "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

oResp := CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
nSuccess := oHttp:HttpReq("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp", oReq, oResp)
IF (nSuccess == 0)
    ? oHttp:LastErrorText
    oHttp:destroy()
    oReq:destroy()
    oResp:destroy()
    RETURN
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>

oHttp:destroy()
oReq:destroy()
oResp:destroy()