Working with HTTP-POST Submit Button

I've created a form that uses a submit button with HTTP-POST. I've tested this against a script that displays the fields, however, I'd like to table the posted data to SQL. Can someone show me some code to parse this data with CGI, or PHP?

Yes. At some point you will need to prarse the requests and treat them differently - because a POST is NOT the same as a GET.
Anyway, just place the variables or script-links to the variables in an HTML Form.
Very easy stuff.

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Urgent--custom servlet not working with https/gateway of the portal server

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Best Regards
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Hi,
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StandardWrapperValve[LoginServlet]: WEB2792: Servlet.service() for servlet LoginServlet threw exception
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at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:908)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:322)
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Hello,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/EN/54/de9e3887d6174fe10000009b38f842/content.htm
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:00:24 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.0.216:8000
Client-Response-Num: 1
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Hello Daniel
It's 6 years after you posted your question, but I found your post very useful and thought it would be worth updating for future reference.
I've just managed to trigger a workflow via http.
URL :
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regards
Steve

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landlord wrote:
> I have trouble to use LabVIEW 6i to GET response from HTTPS server. It
> works with HTTP server smoothly. (I changed the port 80 to 443.) Are
> there any package can work with HTTPS? BTW, I also have LabVIEW 7 and
> will use that if 7 has the solution.
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I think.
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a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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hth clemens
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