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Can someone give me an example of a HTTP POST request?

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2006-08-14 02:46:56, Category: Programming & Design
I'm trying to post form data to an external site using PHP. The request currently looks like this: (ignore the spaces in some of the words - I added them to prevent Yahoo from truncating them) POST /system.aspx HTTP 1.0 Host: thesitetosendto.com Cookie: username=myusername&pass word=mypassword Content-Type: applicat ion/x-www-form-urlen coded Content-Length: 9 this=that I've tried it with "Connection: Close" at the end but it causes a bad request response (invalid verb?) and also after Content-Length which gives a valid response (Status: 200) but doesn't post any data. Without "Connection: Close" the site gives no response and my script just times out while it's waiting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answers

  1. jmfc

    On 2006-08-14 06:52:52


    I found this comment on a board from someone who appears to of had the same problem as you - getting a 200 status but no data posted. Hope this helps. http://us3.php.net/fsockopen "If you are composing your own HTTP POST to upload to a form or upload a file, you need to realize that when you *use* your boundary to separate the parts, you need to prepend two dashes (--) to whatever you *defined* your boundary as. For example, if you define your boundary as --1234, then you need to send ----1234 as your boundaries. If you forget to prepend those two dashes, it is particularly frustrating because the server will return a 200 OK / accepted code, but your receiving form will not recieve any POSTed data. I only wasted a day and a half on that one."

  2. C.J

    On 2006-08-14 02:48:54


    You lost me!!