HTTP Request - no parameters

[jwmct]

I want to open and run an ASP page using HTTPRequest, but there are no input parameters. Should I use Post or Get? What to do about the parameters?

Thanks

[Bob Hansen]

Depends on what you want to do. From the Help section, version 7.2.050:

HTTPRequest>URL,[LocalFilename],Method,[POST_Data],Result_Variable[,ProxyServer,ProxyPort]

Retrieves a web document via the HTTP protocol using either GET or POST methods.

URL: URL of document to retrieve
LocalFileName: Optional (may be left blank) - local file to save response to.
Method: GET or POST
Post_Data: Data to Post to URL if using POST method. Use name=value pairs separated by '&'. See example below.
Result_Variable: Stores result of operation. If successful this will contain the HTML returned. Otherwise it will contain an error message.
ProxyServer: Optional - if using a proxy server set this to domain or IP address of proxy server.
ProxyPort: Optional - if using a proxy server, set to port number of proxy server.

Abbreviation : HTT

Example

The following line does a simple GET request and saves the resulting HTML to a variable called HTMLResponse:

HTTPRequest>http://www.mjtnet.com,,GET,,HTMLResponse

The following line does the same thing but also saves the output to a file:

HTTPRequest>http://www.mjtnet.com,d:\HTML\mjtnet.html,GET,,HTMLResponse

This demonstrates a POST operation, sending name=value pairs to the page:

Let>PostData=email=[email protected]&name=Joe Bloggs
HTTPRequest>http://www.someplace.com/someform.html, ... MLResponse

[support]

If you aren't POSTing any data to the page and just want to open it then you can just use GET and ignore the data section. But POST would work too.