postToHost function

Sends Multiform Post Request to HTTP Server

postToHost(host, path, data.to.send, referer, port=80, ua, accept,
accept.language, accept.encoding, accept.charset, contenttype, cookie)

Arguments

• host: The host to which to send the Request e. g.: www.spiegel.de, 127.0.0.1

• path: The path to the file e. g. /cgi/getpasswords.pl or /index.html, default "/"

• data.to.send: is a list of name value pairs e. g. list(name=value, name1=value1, name2=value2). The value may be a list("filename"=X, "object"=Y), where Y is a vector of type raw and X is a name to be posted as the filename of Y.

• referer: something like www.myhome.org, default: NULL (not present in header)

• port: port to connect to, default 80

• ua: Identifier of the user agent, default "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070719 Iceweasel/2.0.0.5 (Debian-2.0.0.5-2)"

• accept: document types that are accepted by the client, default:

  "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,

  image/png,/;q=0.5"

• accept.language: languages that are preferred by the client, default: "de,de-de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3"

• accept.encoding: compressions that are accepted by the client, default: "gzip,deflate"

• accept.charset: charset accepted by the client, default: "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"

• contenttype: type of data that is sent to the server, default: "application/octet-stream"

• cookie: e. g., "SessionID=1008XVG0F1F5D8H94294967295", default: NULL (not present in header)

Returns

document which the server returns.

Details

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

Author(s)

E.W.Wolski wolski@molgen.mpg.de, Andreas Westfeld andreas.westfeld@htw-dresden.de

See Also

getToHost, simplePostToHost

Examples

#to test uncomment. First check that the host is running.
#port <- 80
#test2 <- list(
#       "fruit"="apple",
#       "dat_defs"="20021204/F113213.dat",
#       "myimage"=list(
#                       "filename"="myimage.raw",
#                       "object"=as.raw(as.vector(mymatrix))
#               ),
#       "upsa"="test"
#)
#postToHost("www.molgen.mpg.de", "/~wolski/test.php4", test2,
#        referer="www.test.de", port=port)