>Thanks Andu, just what I needed! Now I know I could do all this with >sockets, but as there is built in "post" and "get" methods in metaTalk how >do I set the httpheaders to look like below? > >Andu (pretty please), if you have a spare moment could you post examples of >a form submission from Netscape/Explorer using the "get" method, This is what the server receives from the same form but using GET.: GET /?Field-user=andu&Submit=Submit&Field-pass=also-andu/ HTTP/1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 > and also >what Metacard's built in "post" and "get = get url someurl?someparams". That >would give a complete picture... get url "http://www.metacard.com" ; put it post "I should read the docs first" to url "the_url.com" > >Thanks > >> From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:42:47 -0400 (EDT) >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: POST >> >> >> >>> Andu, do you know what is sent in the http header from a browser such as >>> Netscape/Explorer. If you could send me an example input I could see if I >>> can get the CGI I am playing with to work? >> This is a web page with 2 fields for username and password and a Submit >> button: >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> POST / HTTP/1.0 >> Connection: Keep-Alive >> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >> Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* >> Accept-Encoding: gzip >> Accept-Language: en >> Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 >> Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded >> Content-length: 50 >> >> >> Field-user=andu&Submit=Submit&Field-pass=also-andu >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> >> Notice the 2 empty lines between the header and the data (crlf & crlf) must be >> there. >> >> >> >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ >> Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm >> Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. >> >> > > >Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ >Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm >Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list. > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
