(C) HTTP POST x-www-form-urlencoded

Demonstrates how to send a simple URL encoded POST (content-type = x-www-form-urlencoded). Form params are passed in the HTTP request body in x-www-form-urlencoded format.

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#include <C_CkHttp.h>
#include <C_CkHttpRequest.h>
#include <C_CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkHttp http;
    HCkHttpRequest req;
    HCkHttpResponse resp;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    http = CkHttp_Create();

    req = CkHttpRequest_Create();

    // Add the request params expected by the server-side:
    CkHttpRequest_AddParam(req,"city","Paris");
    CkHttpRequest_AddParam(req,"country","France");

    // Send the POST  (This is a real URL that may be tested.)

    resp = CkHttp_PostUrlEncoded(http,"http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/cityCountry.asp",req);
    if (CkHttp_getLastMethodSuccess(http) != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkHttp_lastErrorText(http));
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        CkHttpRequest_Dispose(req);
        return;
    }

    CkHttpResponse_Dispose(resp);

    // The exact HTTP request sent and response received
    // by the example code above is as follows:

    // 
    // ---- Sending ----
    // POST /httpTest/cityCountry.asp HTTP/1.1
    // Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
    // Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    // Content-Length: 25
    // 
    // city=Paris&country=France
    // ---- Received ----
    // HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    // Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:16:00 GMT
    // Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
    // X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
    // Content-Length: 156
    // Content-Type: text/html
    // Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQCDTSSAC=MHJCNFMDENFOKGINOFEDILCM; path=/
    // Cache-control: private
    // 
    // 
    // <html>
    // <head>
    // <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    // </head>
    // <body>
    // 
    // France<br />Paris<br />
    // 
    // </body>
    // </html>


    CkHttp_Dispose(http);
    CkHttpRequest_Dispose(req);

    }