simplePostToHost {httpRequest}

Sends Simple Post Request to HTTP Server (host)

Description

Sends Post Request to HTTP Server

Usage

        simplePostToHost(host, path, datatosend, referer, contenttype,
                                port=80, maxlen=131063L)

Arguments

host

The host to which to send the Request eg.: www.spiegel.de, localhost

path

The path to the file eg. ‘⁠/cgi-bin/paramlist.cgi⁠’ or ‘⁠/index.html⁠’

datatosend

key value pairs pairs separated by \& "pid=14\&pollvotenumber=2\n4"

referer

something like www.myhome.org

contenttype

default: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

port

its 80 or 8080 most frequently

maxlen

maximum blocksize read at once

Details

It is a simple http client. So it does not take care of special chars e.g. whitspaces. For details see e.g. perl HTTP::Request::Common documentation and
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/0_TableOfContents.html The output is gathered in several blocks, if necessary. The parameter maxlen is used to determine the last data block by its length. The first block with less than maxlen bytes is considered the last one.

Value

The document which the server returns as a string.

Author(s)

E.W.Wolski [e-mail], Andreas Westfeld

See Also

getToHost, postToHost

Examples

host <- "api.scb.se"
path <- "/OV0104/v1/doris/en/ssd"
data <- '{"format":"json"}'
simplePostToHost(host, path, data, contenttype="text/json")