httpRequest (version 0.0.11)

getToHost2: Sends Get Request to HTTP Server (host) with raw contents

Description

Sends Get Request to HTTP Server (experimental version of getToHost based on raw data type)

Usage

getToHost2(host,path,referer,port=80)

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 eg. /cgi/getpasswords.pl?test=best or /index.html

referer

something like www.myhome.org

port

its 80 or 8080 most frequently

Value

The document which the server returns as a string.

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

See Also

getToHost

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#check first if www.molgen.mpg.de is running.
#port <- 80
#getToHost2("www.molgen.mpg.de",
#        "/~wolski/test.php4?test=test1&test2=test2&test3=3",
#        "www.test.pl", port=port)
# }