Re: how can I change this get code to post code

Thanks Steven, I think I'm good for now. Priorities have changed again here and I'm now on something else but I'm sure I'll be back to this again later on.

cj



Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:
Thanks for your reply Cj,

Let's focus on the process you mentioned here first:
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Now to understand better the changes I need to make. This might be obvious to you but it isn't to me so let me make sure I understand what we are doing. In a get I didn't write anything but in a post I have to so that is why the streamwriter is required. Makes sense I hope I'm right. So sw=new streamwriter(req.getrequeststream(), encoding.utf8) is creating a streamwriter with the output of it being req.getrequeststream. Then sw.write(postdata) is putting the postdata into the req. But nothing has actually been sent to the jsp page yet. Right? Now when we run rep=req.getresponse() the postdata that was put in the web request req is now being sent to the jsp page and it's reply is being stored in rep. We are now ready to read the response from rep etc. Do I understand this process correctly?
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Yes, you've got them correctly. Let me further summary it for your reference:

** For HTTP GET method, you do not send any data in HTTP request's message body, but only append some simple text data(name=value pairs) in the url querystring ( http://[url]?param1=value1&param2=value2......). And when you use httpWebRequest to send GET request, you do not need to use StreamWriter to open the "RequestStream" or write data into it(just append them in url is enough)

** For HTTP POST method, you do not need to use url querystring for additional data. You can use the HTTP message body. And in .net HttpWebRequest class, you simpley open the "RequestStream" and write the data into it and close it(before you send the request)

** When you write the data into WebRequest's "RequestStream" and close it, the data(even the request) still hasn't been send. It is only when you call "WebRequest.GetResponse" method that the actually http communication between client and server starts. Also, after the GetResponse method ends, the response data should has been arrived client-side cache and you can use "Response" and "ResponseStream" to read them.


Another question you mentioned:
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One last thing. Why do you use the url http://localhost:58549/post_handler.ashx ? Is this some kind of loop back that I can use for testing? I've never heard of an ashx file.
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"http://localhost:58549/post_handler.ashx"; is not a built-in loopback, it is a test handler in my test project(I normally build some simple test page or handler for such testing). And for ASP.NET web page, since it has viewstate validation for post request(postback), you need to do additional work if you want to programmtically use WebRequest to send post message to aspx page. Therefore, I use a "ashx" httphandler here for test since it doesn't have viewstate validation. The ashx "simple handler" is a built-in component type you can use in Visual Studio ASP.NET 2.0 project. If you have interests, you can create one through the following steps in your VS 2005/ASP.NET project:

** in project solution explorer, right click project/web site node and chooe "add--new item"

** In the "new item" dialog, choose "Generic Handler" component and click OK to create one

** It is just an httphandler, but since "ashx" extension has been registered in IIS already, you do not need to do IIS registering work and just configure it in web.config file and you can use such handler

If you still have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know. We'are always willing and pleased to help others resolve their problem and make the community better and also need and appreciate your understanding and support to us!

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.






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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:07:30 -0400
From: cj <cj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)

Thank you Steven

First, Yes it was Cor that said something about the url that I take it meant I shouldn't have posted it. Sorry I got confused on the replies.

Second, I did read your post and article several times and browsed through other parts of the MSDN site you pointed me to but apparently I'm not quite as up to speed on this subject as many of you are and I still couldn't figure out what to change in my program. As for you not sending data I didn't know what you meant by "without any data in request message". It never crossed my mind that you could post with sending data. I can't imagine why such a thing would be done.

Please don't get upset. Just so you understand when I look at the code I sent you and then at your code I see you have much more code than I do. When I start going through it I find that you changed my variable names--for instance webresp to rep--and that you've broken out the streamreader code. Where I had

respstr = new io.streamreader(webresp.getresponsestream).readtoend

you have

dim sr as streamreader
dim strcontent as string
sr=new streamreader(rep.getresponsestream())
strcontent=sr.readtoend()

For you this might be easy but for me all this makes it hard for me to quickly say, oh, the new parts of the code I needed are

webreq.contenttype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

then sw=new streamwriter(req.getrequeststream(), encoding.utf8)
sw.write(postdata)
sw.close


Now to understand better the changes I need to make. This might be obvious to you but it isn't to me so let me make sure I understand what we are doing. In a get I didn't write anything but in a post I have to so that is why the streamwriter is required. Makes sense I hope I'm right. So sw=new streamwriter(req.getrequeststream(), encoding.utf8) is creating a streamwriter with the output of it being req.getrequeststream. Then sw.write(postdata) is putting the postdata into the req. But nothing has actually been sent to the jsp page yet. Right? Now when we run rep=req.getresponse() the postdata that was put in the web request req is now being sent to the jsp page and it's reply is being stored in rep. We are now ready to read the response from rep etc. Do I understand this process correctly?

I know it's hard typing all this back in forth. It would have taken 5 minutes if you was standing here but I don't have anyone that I can grab like that for a 5 minute discussion. I appreciate your help.

One last thing. Why do you use the url http://localhost:58549/post_handler.ashx ? Is this some kind of loop back that I can use for testing? I've never heard of an ashx file.

Ok I'm going to send this now and then I'm going to play with the code some more and see if I can get it working.




Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:
Thanks for your reply Cj,

First, I have never added comments against the url you added, I think
maybe
Cor Ligthert have some suggestion on this(not Steven Cheng).

Second, about the test code snippet I posted, I've mentioned that it is
a
simple test which post no data(no name&value pairs. And in the article
I
pasted eariler, there are complete code snippets about add name & value pairs. I don't think you've ever read any of the articles I've provided. BTW, if you do have complain on those articles or on me, please feel
free
to let me know, then, I should not paste them next time.

Well, for your scenario, if you want to translate the full url (GET
method)
to POST one:

"http://foo.com/Test.jsp?user=sam&field1=&field2=testing";

you can use the following code:

This time, I used the exact url you've posted, you can freely to change
it
(no matter your target url is ".dll" or ".jsp")
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
Dim req As HttpWebRequest
Dim rep As HttpWebResponse
Dim sr As StreamReader
Dim strContent As String
Dim postData As String
Dim bytes() As Byte
Dim sw As StreamWriter


Dim url As String


url = "http://localhost:58549/post_handler.ashx";
postData = "user=sam&field1=&field2=testing"


req = WebRequest.Create(url)

req.Method = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

sw = New StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), Encoding.UTF8)
sw.Write(postData)
sw.Close()


rep = req.GetResponse()

sr = New StreamReader(rep.GetResponseStream())

strContent = sr.ReadToEnd()

sr.Close()
rep.Close()

Me.TextBox1.Text = strContent
End Sub

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Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.


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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:21:39 -0400
Steven, I don't understand what you are trying to say. I made up "http://foo.com/Test.dll?user=sam&field1=&field2=testing"; just for this posting. I wouldn't post a real address as I don't want to give out
our
company's site info. So don't worry about me posting foo.com, to my knowledge it doesn't exist and the rest of the string is also just
examples.
If I can understand how to convert what we had been doing with a get as shown by my example into post I can convert my live application.


Cor Ligthert[MVP] wrote:
Steven,

Well done by changing the URL, these kinds of invitations are giving
me
always some strange ideas. As Herfried made me yesterday attend on is
it
probably better next time to remove the part with the original URL in the text before you send.

I am not saying anything about cj, only that it gives me strange ideas to start an Internet procedure.

:-)

Cor

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht news:Pu0Fqqr6HHA.360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Cj,

As for the "how to change code to post code" question, do you mean
you
want
to make the httpwebrequest component send a http"POST" message to
target
server endpoint?

If this is the case, you can simply set HttpWebRequest.Method
property
to
"POST"

#HttpWebRequest.Method Property

https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.method.a
spx

and here is a simple test method which use webrequest to send HTTP
POST
request to the website(without any data in request message):

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim req As HttpWebRequest
Dim rep As HttpWebResponse
Dim sr As StreamReader
Dim strContent As String


Dim url As String

url = "http://www.asp.net";

req = WebRequest.Create(url)

req.Method = "POST"
req.ContentLength = 0


rep = req.GetResponse()

sr = New StreamReader(rep.GetResponseStream())

strContent = sr.ReadToEnd()

sr.Close()
rep.Close()


Me.TextBox1.Text = strContent


End Sub
here are some web articles introducing posting data with webrequest
and
have exmaples on add some parameters (if you want to send some data
with
the post request)

#POSTing Data with ASP.NET
http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/netscrape2.asp

#Create dynamic data and post to a server
http://google.com/answers/threadview?id=174465

Hope this helps some.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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