Simulate form post from Server Side

[BarryX]

Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

I have generally been posting data using:

Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml.Open "POST","http://SOMEURL/Search.asp?" & strParmList, False
xml.Send

The above is fine for passing URL parameters, but I need to simulate it
coming from a form which has a name. How do I pass the form name which
is used at the posted URL?

Help!

[Tim Slattery]

"BarryX" <ba***@praxcom.NOfreeserve.co.SPAMukwrote:

>Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

I have generally been posting data using:

Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml.Open "POST","http://SOMEURL/Search.asp?" & strParmList, False
xml.Send

The above is fine for passing URL parameters, but I need to simulate it
coming from a form which has a name. How do I pass the form name which
is used at the posted URL?

AFAIK, the "name" attribute of a form tag really has no meaning and is
never transmitted to the server. On a normal HTML page, if you want to
send an extra bit of data you use a <input type="hidden" element.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Sl********@bls.gov
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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

BarryX wrote:

Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

I have generally been posting data using:

Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml.Open "POST","http://SOMEURL/Search.asp?" & strParmList, False
xml.Send

The above is fine for passing URL parameters, but I need to simulate
it coming from a form which has a name. How do I pass the form name
which is used at the posted URL?

1. In server-side code, use Microsoft.ServerXMLHTTP
2. I don;'t think this is possible due to security restrictions. What
are you trying to accomplish?
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[Evertjan.]

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

BarryX wrote:

>Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

1. In server-side code, use Microsoft.ServerXMLHTTP
2. I don;'t think this is possible due to security restrictions. What
are you trying to accomplish?

<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "x=1&y=2"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

<http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...contents-of-a-
remote-web-page.html>
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Evertjan. wrote:

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

>BarryX wrote:

>>Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

>1. In server-side code, use Microsoft.ServerXMLHTTP
2. I don;'t think this is possible due to security restrictions. What
are you trying to accomplish?

<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "x=1&y=2"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

<http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...contents-of-a-
remote-web-page.html>

I'm not sure what your point is ... how does this help the OP accomplish
his task?

--
Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.

[Evertjan.]

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Evertjan. wrote:

>Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

>>BarryX wrote:
Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

>>1. In server-side code, use Microsoft.ServerXMLHTTP
2. I don;'t think this is possible due to security restrictions.
What are you trying to accomplish?

<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "x=1&y=2"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

<http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...contents-of-a-
remote-web-page.html>

I'm not sure what your point is ... how does this help the OP
accomplish his task?

Oops, I should have quoted Shakespeare, not aspfaq.

["A form by any other name ..."]
<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "theFormName=myNewForm"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

[Doing what html can only do in a (possibly hidden) input]
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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[BarryX]

This looks promising Evertjan.

Will mess with it. Thanks.
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Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Evertjan. wrote:

Bob Barrows [MVP] wrote on 26 sep 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

BarryX wrote:
Hi,

How do I simulate this from the server side:

<form name="SearchForm" method="POST" id="SearchForm"
action="http://SOMEURL/Search.ASP?Parm1=1&Parm2=2">

1. In server-side code, use Microsoft.ServerXMLHTTP
2. I don;'t think this is possible due to security restrictions.
What are you trying to accomplish?

<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "x=1&y=2"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

<http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...contents-of-a-
remote-web-page.html>

I'm not sure what your point is ... how does this help the OP
accomplish his task?

Oops, I should have quoted Shakespeare, not aspfaq.

["A form by any other name ..."]
<%
url = "http://www.espn.com/main.html"
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-
urlencoded"
xmlhttp.send "theFormName=myNewForm"
Response.write xmlhttp.responseText
set xmlhttp = nothing
%>

[Doing what html can only do in a (possibly hidden) input]
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)