| postToHost {httpRequest} | R Documentation |
Sends Multiform Post Request to HTTP Server
postToHost(host,path,dataTosend,referer="",port=80)
host |
The host to which to send the Request eg.: www.spiegel.de,127.0.01 |
path |
The path to the file eg. /cgi/getpasswords.pl or /index.html |
dataTosend |
its a list of name value pairs e.g. list(name=value,name1=value1,name2=value2) |
referer |
something like www.myhome.org |
port |
its 80 or 8080 most frequently |
It is a simple http client. So it does not take care of special chars e.g. whitspaces.
For details see e.g. perl HTTP::Request::Common documentation.
and http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/0_TableOfContents.html
document which the server returns.
E.W.Wolski wolski@molgen.mpg.de
postObjectToHost
#to test uncomment. First check that the host ist running.
#port <- 80
#test2 <- list(
# "fruit"="apple"
# ,"dat_defs"="20021204/F113213.dat"
# ,"upsa"="test"
# )
#postToHost("www.molgen.mpg.de","/~wolski/test.php4",test2,referer="www.test.de",port=port)