Re: www test for POST data

John Gateley <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:27:30 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.monitoring.sysmon.help
Organization J. River, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:05:13 -0500
Jared Mauch <[email protected]> wrote:

> 	the http test is fairly basic, if your backend form parsing
> works semi-reasonable it may be able to support both get+post style
> parameters so you could just specify a "really-long-url"(tm)

That's not convenient. It would be easier for me to pass a special
argument in the URL that says "use this default post data". I'm using
the POST data because it doesn't follow the "param=value" format.

> 	otherwise, if post support were implemented, how would you want
> to specify the parameters to be posted?

I use POST data because it isn't parameters - in this case I'm using it
to pass XML, and I have used it to pass raw binary data.

So, just off the top of my head, maybe a www-post type that takes a URL
and a file containing the actual POST data to use?

Thanks very much.

j