I have HTML form that is used for sending bugreports from application to server. I need to mimic this behavior programmatically. What will the corresponding POST request (or series of requests) look like?
<form name="bugreport" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://my-server.com/bugreport.php">
<div name="SentData">
<textarea name="logfile" class="UserVisible"></textarea><br>
<textarea name="configfile" class="UserVisible"></textarea><br>
</div>
<textarea name="usercomment" class="invisible"></textarea><br>
<input name="useremail" type="text" class="invisible">
<input class="invisible" type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
A POST request consists of a number of headers and a request body. When you submit a form, the browser URL encodes names and values of all form fields and then puts them in the request body in this format:
fieldname1=fieldvalue1&fieldname2=fieldvalue2
I.e. the request body looks like a typical query string.
Here's what the request could look like for your form:
POST /bugreport.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: [size of the request body]
logfile=blabla&configfile=more+blabla&usercomment=hello&useremail=
To make sure your program matches what a browser would do, you can post the form with Firefox and then inspect the request headers and body using Firebug's net panel.
