On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Bescon, Guenole wrote:

> I would like to do a post request
>
> What I've already done is:
>
> curl_easy_setopt(mySession, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_easy_setopt(mySession, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1);
> // myURL is a char * that looks like : http://myHost:myPort/myFile
> curl_easy_setopt(mySession, CURLOPT_URL, myURL);
> // myPostedData is a char * that looks like:
> attrname1=attrvalue1&attrname2=attrvalue2&attrname3=attrvalue3....
> curl_easy_setopt(mySession, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, myPostedData);
>
> Is it the good way to do a HTTP post using libcurl ?

Yes it looks fine.

> I saw the curl_formparse method. Is it another way to do HTTP post using
> this method ?

Exactly. That is a help function when you want to create a rfc1867-style
post, which is a more complicated and involved multi-part post. If you ever
seen a web page with a file upload form, you've seen one! ;-)

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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