need expert HELP with manual HTTP POST request

[111101101]

Okay, i need help. but first, you MUST be an expert with the HTTP protocol. Just a standard web developer wont understand what i am trying to do.

I am trying to find out how to "manually" send a string into a remote web server (via port 80) with the HTTP POST protocol. I have succeeded with the HTTP GET request, but cant seem to be able to send the correct character strings into the stream with POST. Like for GET, this is what i send....

GET /index.asp?name=hello HTTP/1.1\n
HOST:

http://www.domain.com\n

\n
\n

But what do i send for POST? I need to be able to send a list of QUERY_STRING along with it, like the name=hello name/value pair.

A return value of 200 OK is success. I did it for GET, now can somebody help me find out how to get it for POST?

Thanks.
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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

> Just a standard web developer wont understand what i am trying to do

Then maybe you should try another forum, possibly one to do with the http protocol itself, not the data that is carried over it (web pages to you).

Sorry to have dissapointed you.

Dan
Standard Web Developer

 

[ChrisHunt]

I'm no expert, but it didn't take long to Google up some examples:

http://www.google.com/search?q=http+post+request+example

Looks like the answer to your question is something like

POST /index.asp HTTP/1.0
Accept */*
Content-type: application/x-[URL unfurl="true"]www-form-urlencoded[/URL]
Content-length: 10

name=hello

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