Visual FoxPro

Send HTTP POST using non-UTF8 such as Windows-1250

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Demonstrates how to specify the character encoding (charset) to be used for the body of an HTTP POST. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loReq
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loResp

lnSuccess = 0

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

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

loReq = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpRequest')

* Load a JSON file containing strings with Polish chars.
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJson.LoadFile("qa_data/json/has_polish_chars.json")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loJson.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loReq
    RELEASE loJson
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Add the request params expected by the server-side:
loReq.AddParam("tytul",loJson.StringOf("tytul"))
loReq.AddParam("tresc",loJson.StringOf("tresc"))

* Indicate we wish to explicitly send the charset attribute in the HTTP request header.
loReq.SendCharset = 1

* Send the POST
* You can send the POST to the URL below.  It will respond with the request body in quoted-printable format.
* Using quoted-printable, we can easily see the binary bytes for the accented chars.

loReq.HttpVerb = "POST"
loReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpReq("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/echoPost.cshtml",loReq,loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loReq
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? loHttp.LastHeader
? loResp.BodyStr

* Sample output:

* --------------------------------------------------
* POST /echoPost.cshtml HTTP/1.1
* Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
* Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
* Content-Length: 79
* 
* <pre>tytul=3DPrzyk%C5%82ad&amp;tresc=3DPrzyk%C5%82ad
* %82oszenie</pre>
* --------------------------------------------------

* We can see by the %C5%82 that utf-8 was sent, because %C5%82 is the 2-byte representation of a particular Polish char.

* -----------------------
* However.. we can change the charset used for the HTTP request by specifying the request object's charset.

loReq.SendCharset = 1
loReq.Charset = "windows-1250"
loReq.HttpVerb = "POST"
loReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpReq("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/echoPost.cshtml",loReq,loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loReq
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? loHttp.LastHeader
? loResp.BodyStr

* Sample output...
* You can see how the bytes used for the Polish chars are now 1-byte per char (i.e. using Windows-1250) 

* --------------------------------------------------
* POST /echoPost.cshtml HTTP/1.1
* Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
* Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=windows-1250
* Content-Length: 70
* 
* <pre>tytul=3DPrzyk%B3ad&amp;tresc=3DPrzyk%B3ad
* e</pre>
* --------------------------------------------------

RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loReq
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loResp