Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi,

I want to post form data to a website, from within a DSTX map, and expect to receive the server's response.

For example: GET("HTTP",
"-URL http://128.30.112.95:9080/echo.jsp -METHOD POST -TV -TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

The form has six text boxes. I want to pass the values of the six text boxes (say 'hi')and retrive the response.

I would appreciate any help in this regards.

Attached is how the form looks like after the server processes the six 'hi' values, passed to it.

Cheers,
Mondweep.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

This has been resolved now.

The way is to pass parameters as shown below:-
GET("HTTP",
"-URL http://128.30.112.95:9080/echoRequest.jsp?field1='hi1' -METHOD POST -TV -TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Hello,hi")

This issues a parameter 'hi' and a payload 'Hello.hi' to the url ' http://128.30.112.95:9080/echoRequest.jsp'.
The server responds as:-

Input URL /echoRequest.jsp
Input method POST
Input content length 8
Input content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Input protocol HTTP/1.1
Secure ? false
Server name 128.30.112.95
Remote address 128.30.80.129
Requested URI /echoRequest.jsp
Scheme http
Input Stream com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.srt.http.HttpInputStream@73aae1cb
Parameter Names List:
 field1 = 'hi1'
In order to send complex data, an XML file could be agreed upon as a payload between DSTX and the webserver so that the latter bases its processing based on the data within the XML payload.
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