Populate a web form from vfp

[Eugen Fintina]

I need to populate a web form from vfp. I know that it is possible but I'm not sure what is the best approach. I do not want to pass the data through URL because it's possible to have a lot of character and I'm afraid that I'll reach the limit.

 

[atlopes]

Eugen,

It may be simple, or it can be really complicated.

Forms have an action which usually indicates the destination of your data.

Suppose you have a Web form with two fields, foo and bar, and an action pointing to "

https://www.example.com".

You want to fill the form with the values "one" and "two".

So you may use something like this (quite simplified):

LOCAL HTTP AS MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP60
LOCAL FormData AS String

m.HTTP = CREATEOBJECT("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")
m.HTTP.Open("Post", "[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.example.com",[/URL] .F.)

m.FormData = "foo=one" + "&" + "bar=two"

m.HTTP.Send(m.FormData)

? m.HTTP.Status, m.HTTP.Statustext
? "" + m.HTTP.Responsebody

This is the basics of the thing. It can get more complicated than this (for instance, it may involve setting additional information on the request headers, or fetch incidental information from the form itself).

 

[Mike Lewis]

I do not want to pass the data through URL because it's possible to have a lot of character and I'm afraid that I'll reach the limit.

But won't a similar limit apply to data that is sent via the form? Wouldn't it be better to put the data in a file and upload it to the server?

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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