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How to POST form variables???

I want to make a client app that posts information to specific web sites cgi-scripts. CHttpConnection supports a POST action but I cannot find anyother infor on how to POST data in a way that a CGI script would expect form data.

CInternetSession is(_T("HTTPGET"));
CHttpConnection *pHC = NULL;
CHttpFile *pHF = NULL;
try
{
pHC = is.GetHttpConnection(_T(Server));
pHF = pHC->OpenRequest(_T(Token), _T(Request), NULL, 0,
NULL, NULL, 0);

jhance

Just use the SendRequest() method to send the POST data along to the server:

try
{
pHC = is.GetHttpConnection(_T(Server));
pHF = pHC->OpenRequest(_T(Token), _T(Request), NULL,0,NULL,NULL, 0);

pHF->SendRequest(NULL, 0, "item=item_val", strlen("item=item_val"));
}

chensu

That won't work. You need to send the "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" header. See

HOWTO: Simulate a Form POST Request Using WinInet
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/2/98.ASP

mikeblas

> That won't work.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Some parsesrs require that header and some don't. Some require other headers, or even a cookie.

..B ekiM

Lucidity

ASKER

chensus worked out great, answer again and I will give you the points.

thanks

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chensu

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