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POST

Submits an HTTP request to a specific server.

Syntax

<POST 
  URL="url string" 
  [SECURE="secured value"]
  [USERNAME="user name"] 
  [PASSWORD="password"] 
  [COOKIE="cookie name"] 
  [LOGOUT="logout value"]
  [HOST="hostname"] 
  [PORT="port address"] 
  [PROXY="proxyname"]
  [PROXYPORT="proxy port"] 
  [OUTDATA="output variable"] 
  [OUTERROR="error variable"] 
  [OUTCOOKIE="outcookie value"]>
     <ARGUMENT
 NAME="somearg1" VALUE="somevalue1"/>
     <ARGUMENT
 NAME="somearg2" VALUE="somevalue2"/>
</POST>

Parameters

URL (required)

URL requests without protocol or host (for example, docs/index.html).

SECURE (optional)

Use HTTPS. Values are true and false. Default is false.

USERNAME (optional)

Username to use to log in to the host (default is current user).

PASSWORD (optional)

User password to use to log in to the host (default is current user).

COOKIE (optional)

Session cookie to use (defaults to cookie set from previous post).

LOGOUT (optional)

Log out the user session created on the target server. Values are true andfalse, and the default is false.

HOST (optional)

Target host name (default is current host).

PORT (optional)

Target host port address (default is the current host port).

PROXY (optional)

Proxy server host name (default is none).

PROXYPORT (optiona)

Proxy server port address (default is none).

OUTDATA (optional)

Variable name whose value contains output of post (default is no variable).

OUTERROR (optional)

Variable name whose value contains errors reported by post (default is no variable).

OUTCOOKIE (optional)

Variable name whose value contains the security cookie set by the post (default is no variable).

Description

The POST tag submits an HTTP request to a specific server. This tag can use proxy information and can cause a login if connection is to a Content Server engine. This tag is useful for submitting a mirror request to a remote server, or inserting a page to get data from a disk cache, and the like.

errno

The value of errno is unchanged.

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