Re: HTTP communication

Tom Lee wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been looking for an example on how to use the HTTP functionality
> properly. I am particularly interested in POST, GET, ect... The application
> that I am currently working on needs to post an extremely large amount of
> data - so I would be in a loop sending 2k buffers with each iteration. Anty
> helop would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 


tom,

you will need to use nsIUploadChannel and nsIHttpChannel to setup a post 
request.  here's some sample code:

   var chan = ...
   var uploadChan = chan.QueryInterface(
			Components.interfaces.nsIUploadChannel);
   uploadChan.setUploadStream(content, contentType, contentLen);
   var httpChan = chan.QueryInterface(
                       Components.interfaces.nsIHttpChannel);
   httpChan.method = "POST";

now, when you call "asyncOpen" on the channel, it will issue a HTTP POST 
request instead of a GET.  it will send the data contained in "content". 
  content must support nsIInputStream.  you can either provide your own 
implementation of nsIInputStream or use one of the existing 
implementations found in xpcom/io, but beware none of the existing 
implementations are frozen.

darin