Does xbuf_frurl() supports HTTP_POST?

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So far, I've only seen examples of using xbuf_frurl() with HTTP_GET method. Does this function in g-wan support HTTP_POST? If it does, how do I pass in the POST data?

Thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '13 at 13:25

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I think you'll need the curl library for this kind of request (look at http://gwan.com/developers libraries part)

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/

and here the g-wan sample

http://gwan.com/source/curl.c

answered Feb 04 '13 at 13:25

solisoft

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Thanks for the quick answer. Already tried curl - just that it's a bit more lines of code to write. – Andy Tam Feb 05 '13 at 02:18
Sure, C is very verbose ... Maybe you can use Ruby or something else ? – solisoft Feb 05 '13 at 09:41

Gil · Answer 2 · 2013-03-18T08:45:30.180

The xbuf_frurl() G-WAN API call can be used with HTTP_POST when providing x-www-form-urlencoded parameters:

xbuf_frurl(xbuf, "gwan.com", 80, HTTP_POST, "/?form", 1000, "&arg1=123&arg2=456");

BTW, the next release brings an HTTPS flag to use SSL:

xbuf_frurl(xbuf, "gwan.com", 443, HTTPS | HTTP_POST, "/?form", 1000, "&arg1=123&arg2=456");

Both calls are more concise than libcURL, and doing it in a "less verbose" way (than one line of code) seems unlikely.

Hope it helps.

Does xbuf_frurl() supports HTTP_POST?

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