On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, Surya Kiran Gullapalli
<suryakiran.gullapalli_at_gmail.com> said:

> Hello all,
> I'm a newbie to curl. My requirement is i've to post some data to a
> web page, submit it and then get the result.

note here: 'post' and 'submit' are the same thing.

>
> When i looked at the source for the webpage, it looks like this.
>
> <form name=compsearch method=post ...>
> <input type=text name=search_str class=text_box size=15 ...>
>

ok, as long as there is no funny javascript involved with submitting the
form, that is very easy to do with libcurl or curl.

> so i've to enter the search string in search_str text box which is
> located in compsearch form.
>
> How can i submit data like this?
>

assuming that you want to use the libcurl library to post from your C
program, look at the docs for curl_formadd(). it lets you build a 'chain'
of post fields which mimic the browser. then you can use
curl_easy_setopt() and
curl_easy_perform() to submit the data to the server and collect the
response as usual.

assuming you want to use the curl command line tool, try looking at its
docs.

allan

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