im trying to figure out if its possible to send POST data through HTTP from a C program.. the reason is, i want to send data from my program to my site (where there is a perl/php script) that then processes this data and returns a reply string. thing is, i cant figure out how to actually send the POST data, i know how to send GET data, but im not sure about POST.
i already searched google, and all i get is CGI scripting.
Thanks in advance
CGI scripting is the place to look. It has been a couple of years since i have done any of this so i can't remember off the top of my head but that is a good place to start.
If you understand the HTTP protocol and how to talk to a server then you should be able to code the required commands into your program.
Hope this helps.
ive been looking and looking and i cant find a decent explanation of the http protocol... i did find a few open source http servers/browsers that might help though. does anyone know where i can find a good http protocol explanation? namely the POST/GET part of it
You can't really beat RFCs for down and dirty protocol information:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
http://www.google.com/search?q=POST+HTTP/1.0 (sample in first result)
POST is the same as GET except that the word "GET" is replaced with the word "POST" and the post data follows the \r\n\r\n at the end of the headers.
Are you using WinINet?
(things like HttpOpenRequest etc)
This link will give you an overview of HTTP protocol. Its a good tutorial for developers.
thanks everyone, i finally figured it out using a combination of all the links you gave me, and no, im not using WinINET
