HTTP POST method

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Fri Nov 22, 2002 11:29 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by tinman.

Hi,

Has anyone got any good links about the format of sending a POST method to an HTTP server? I've been searching for a long time but cannot find anything good (my program seems to work OK with Apache and a test script I have but causes a VBScript error on a real server).

Thanks.

(Update: it's to send HTML form data to the server)
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Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:52 am

Asked nearly a year ago and I'm searching for exactly the same thing. There is libcurl which I've had a *little* success with but it's really hard to work with and to do SSL I'll have to include about 1.5 megs worth of DLLs..

Has anyone come up with any magic since 2002? I need to POST a form to a web page over SSL and read the results..

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:03 am

Wow, didn't realise such old posts still existed ;)

Karbon wrote:Has anyone come up with any magic since 2002? I need to POST a form to a web page over SSL and read the results..

I ended up writing some HTTP transfer routines which can handle GET and POST, plain and chunked data transfer and support proper events. They don't do resume and I've never looked at SSL.

I guess I could post them here if you want a look. Maybe. If you ask *real* nice ;p

benny · Post by **benny** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:40 pm

Hey Tinman,

would be really interested to see that code

would you be so kind to post it,PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Thanks in advance

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:44 pm

Yes tinman, see me begging over here

HTTP is one step closer than I am now to HTTPS!

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:58 pm

I'm also thinking that there might be a way to do this with a webgadget and some javascript but I'm not positive yet. It's a total hack but I'll post it if I can get something working.

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:57 pm

OK, rather than post it here, I've put it on my homepage. It's a collection of source files so not very well suited to posting on the forum.

The http_transfer.pb file is the main one you need to include to use it.

The file france_insee_data.pb is a piece of code I've used it with, but that probably won't run as I never checked that all the files are there - it's only there to show you how to use the HTTP stuff.

Note that there still seems to be some problems. Mainly that I found afer transferring a lot of files it would die without bumping the buffer size up a lot. There is no resume support. There is no pipelining support.

http://www.david-mcminn.co.uk

benny · Post by **benny** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 8:47 pm

@Tinman:
Thank you very much ... i am going to download it immediately!

Post by **Berikco** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:31 pm

I wrote some POST functionality for atomic webserver once.
viewtopic.php?t=2229

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 11:00 pm

Thanks guys!

Dreglor · Post by **Dreglor** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:53 pm

hmm your home pages does not exist as my browser says...
misspelled the link?

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:35 pm

Dreglor wrote:hmm your home pages does not exist as my browser says...
misspelled the link?

Me? No, it definately exists and the link is correct. I noticed that it was dead a few days ago, perhaps my hosting company had more problems when you tried. But I just checked now and it really does exist :)

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:16 am

Got it..

viewtopic.php?t=8302

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:44 am

Hey Tinman, 8th December 2003 doesn't exist yet.

Look at your web page

tinman · Post by **tinman** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 11:45 am

Psychophanta wrote:Hey Tinman, 8th December 2003 doesn't exist yet. :)
Look at your web page :arrow:

Errr, that's the next planned update. Honest ;)