<post url = anyURI encoding = "ISO-8859-1" | "UTF-8" : "ISO-8859-1" readResponse = boolean : false > Content: [ field ]+ </post> <field name = Form field name (US-ASCII only) > Content: value | file </field> <value> Content: xs:string </value> <file name = Path contentType = Content type />
Emulates an HTML form possibly containing input type="file"
elements.
The post
element posts the contents of the emulated form to the CGI or Servlet specified by attribute url
.
The body of the POST
request is encoded as "multipart/form-data
" if the post
element contains at least one file
descendant element. Otherwise this body is encoded as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded
".
Optional attribute encoding
specifies the character encoding used to escape accented characters when the body of the POST
request is encoded as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded
".
An emulated form field has a name specified by required attribute name
. There are two type of fields:
Emulates input type="text"
or input type="hidden"
elements found in an HTML form. The content of this element, a possibly empty string, specifies the value of the field.
Emulates input type="
file"
elements found in an HTML form. The name
attribute of this element specifies the filename of the file to be uploaded.
Unless specified, the content type of the file is guessed using the extension of the filename. If the filename ends with:
the content type is supposed to be application/zip
;
the content type is supposed to be application/x-java-archive
;
the content type is supposed to be text/xml
.
Otherwise, the content type is supposed to be application/octet-stream
.
If attribute readResponse
is specified with value true
, this element returns the response of the server. Otherwise, this element returns no result at all.
Moreover, for this element to return a result, the server must respond to the post request with a success code different from "No Content
" (204) and must send "text/*
" data (e.g. "text/plain
", "text/html
", etc). If the content type of the sent data has no charset, the data is read as a string using charset "ISO-8859-1
".
Examples:
<post url="http://localhost:8080/measure/archive"> <field name="op"> <value>add</value> </field> <field name="user"> <value>%U</value> </field> <field name="data"> <file name="/tmp/1052_3_CO_3.1R" /> </field> </post> <post url="http://localhost:8080/measure/archive" readResponse="true"> <field name="op"> <value>add</value> </field> <field name="user"> <value>%U</value> </field> <field name="interactive"> <value>false</value> </field> <field name="data"> <file name="1052_3_CO_3.1R" contentType="text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> </field> </post> <post url="http://www.acme.com/login" encoding="UTF-8" readResponse="true"> <field name="username"> <value>admin</value> </field> <field name="password"> <value>changeit</value> </field> </post>
Unless used in XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition, this element will cause its parent process command to be disabled.