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POST
Submits an HTTP request to a specific server.
Syntax
<POST URL="url string" HOST="hostname" PORT="port address" [SECURE="secured value"] [USERNAME="user name"] [PASSWORD="password"] [COOKIE="cookie name"] [LOGOUT="logout value"] [PROXY="proxyname"] [PROXYPORT="proxy port"] [OUTDATA="output variable"] [OUTERROR="error variable"] [OUTCOOKIE="outcookie value"] > <ARGUMENT
NAME="somearg1" VALUE="somevalue1"/> <ARGUMENT
NAME="somearg2" VALUE="somevalue2"/> </POST>Parameters
URL (required)
- URL requests without protocol or host (for example, docs/index.html).
HOST (required)
- Target host name.
PORT (required)
- Target host port number.
SECURE (optional)
- Use HTTPS. Values are
true
and false. Default is false.
USERNAME (optional)
- Username to use to log in to the host (default is current user).
PASSWORD (optional)
- User password to use to log in to the host (default is current user).
COOKIE (optional)
- Session cookie to use (defaults to cookie set from previous post).
LOGOUT (optional)
- Log out the user session created on the target server. Values are
true
andfalse, and the default is false.
PROXY (optional)
- Proxy server host name (default is
none
).
PROXYPORT (optiona)
- Proxy server port address (default is
none
).
OUTDATA (optional)
- Variable name whose value contains output of post (default is no variable).
OUTERROR (optional)
- Variable name whose value contains errors reported by post (default is no variable).
OUTCOOKIE (optional)
- Variable name whose value contains the security cookie set by the post (default is no variable).
Description
The POST tag submits an HTTP request to a specific server. This tag can use proxy information and can cause a login if connection is to a Sites engine. This tag is useful for submitting a mirror request to a remote server, or inserting a page to get data from a disk cache, and the like.
Example
The following example posts a request to the server to execute the XML page xyz. If the page xyz does not exist then nothing is displayed on the browser.
<POST URL="/cs/ContentServer" HOST="localhost" PORT="8080" OUTDATA="outdata" >
<ARGUMENT NAME="pagename" VALUE="xyz" />
</POST><SETVAR NAME="posterr" VALUE="errno:Variables.errno"/>
<br/>Errno after post url is <CSVAR NAME="Variables.errno" />
<br/>Output: <CSVAR NAME="Variables.outdata" />Error Numbers
There are no possible
errno
for this tag.
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