Re: How can I POST form-data

Poonam Mehtani writes:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been trying to use the library libwww and in relation to that I have a couple of questions. 
> 
> I have an application in which I need to submit a HTML form to retrieve some document. Instead of actually filling the form I need to sen
 d the data to the query server through a command. For that I tried to use the 
Command Line Tool to send form data by appending query strin
 g to the URL but it didn't work.This was tried with a form using GET method. 

I am not sure what the problem is here but it should be possible to send a 
form encoded URL using the normal URL syntax with a "?" mark and a query 
string in any GET request.

> In case of a form using POST method, I tried sending the data(name-value string) from a local file using -post and -dest options. It seem
 s the data gets posted but I can not retrieve any document as a result of 
that query. Could you tell me how this( POSTing the query string
  and getting the HTML document as a result of the query) can be done ?    
> 

Each request object has an input stream and an output stream. The input stream 
goes from the application and to the network, and the output stream goes from 
the network and to the application. This way of using input and output differs 
from for example Java where input means "read" and if people find it 
confusing, I am willing to change it.

The output stream is normally set up by the stream stack when data starts to 
arrive and we learn the media type and hence can select the proper converter 
to handle the data. The input stream is normally assigned by the protocol 
module, for example the HTTP module. The input stream can be used by the 
application to send data to the network. However, as the application doesn't 
knwo when the input data stream is ready for writing, you must instead 
register a callback function which the protocol module can call when it is 
ready for accepting data going to the network. 

This is basically what the function HTUploadAnchor() in the HTAccess.c module 
does. Here you can provide your own callback function that knows how to get 
the data to send to the server. You can also have a look at the example 
callback function HTUpload_callback() in the same module which shows you how 
to write to a stream as this is not evident to do.


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Received on Monday, 25 March 1996 17:27:13 UTC