How to send data via HTTP Post method

[dejanj]

Dear All,

I 've found this article from Fox Advisor ( Jul 2002 ) in TIps section.

When i tried i can't seem to be able to send data to HTTP the method open returns the contents of ASP page.

According to article i should be able to send data via Post to ASP page

Maybe someone can test it and tell me what is wrong.
I would appreciate response.

I made the ASP page with the name httpPostTest.asp
on which i have put form with textbox txtMyHtmlTextBox

Still when i execute the function from command mode i type
?senddata()

with no parameters i got the content of httpPostTest.ASP page

Here is the code ( using MSXML2.DLL) :

FUNCTION SendData (tcDataToSend, tcUrlTOPostTo)
LOCAL loXmlHttp, lcResponse
clea
IF PCOUNT()<2
* Use sample data
tcDataToSend = "txtMyHtmlTextBox=sampledata"
tcUrlTOPostTo = "

http://localhost/httpPostTest.asp"

ENDIF

loXmlHttp = CREATEOBJECT("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
* Set the connection. The parameters are the data transfer
* method, the URL to connect to
* and if we are connectiong asynhroniously
loXmlHttp.open("POST",tcUrlTOPostTo,.f.)
* Set the post's request header.
loXmlHttp.setrequestHeader("content-type", ;
"application/x-

http://www-form-urlencoded")

* THis command submits the data to the web form.
loXmlHttp.send(tcDataToSend)
lcResponse = loXmlHttp.responsetext

loXmlHttp = .null.
*?lcResponse
RETURN lcResponse



Regards
Dejan

 

[baltman]

Did you see faq184-4359 How To Programmatically Fill In a Form (HTTP GET/POST)?

Brian