Making POST work with URL's

[Ken Ray]

Rob, don't you need a <variable>=<value> parameter to the POST?

Meaning, doesn't it need something like "number=P01308" instead of
"P01308"?

Just thinking...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 



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> Rob Beynon
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:34 PM
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> Subject: Making POST work with URL's
> 
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having a devil of a job retrieving data from a web site 
> usinf the POST command. Here's some example coding
> 
> put empty into card field "SVG"
> ask "Swiss-Prot accession number" with P01308
> post it to URL "http://au.expasy.org/cgi-bin/get-sprot-entry?"
> put it into card field "SVG"
> break
> 
> 
> This doesn't seem to assemble properly, so that I get entry 
> P01308 not available (it is).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> I'd appreciate a direct response to this one, as I'm working 
> on a deadline (r.beynon at liv.ac.uk)
> 
> 
> -- 
> All best wishes,
> Rob
> 
> 
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