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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)The host to which to send the Request e. g.: www.spiegel.de, 127.0.0.1
The path to the file e. g. /cgi/getpasswords.pl or /index.html, default "/"
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.
something like www.myhome.org, default: NULL (not present in header)
port to connect to, default 80
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)"
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"
languages that are preferred by the client, default: "de,de-de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3"
compressions that are accepted by the client, default: "gzip,deflate"
charset accepted by the client, default: "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
type of data that is sent to the server, default: "application/octet-stream"
e. g., "SessionID=1008XVG0F1F5D8H94294967295", default: NULL (not present in header)
document which the server returns.
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
getToHost, simplePostToHost
# NOT RUN {
#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)
# }
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