I tried submitting this simple form given in the presentation of POCO library but the server receives no get or post requests.
HTTPClientSession s("localhost");
HTTPRequest request(HTTPRequest::HTTP_POST, "/fileupload/upload_file.php");
HTMLForm form;
form.add("entry1", "value1");
form.prepareSubmit(request);
s.sendRequest(request);
Poco::Net::HTTPResponse res;
std::istream &is = s.receiveResponse(res);
Poco::StreamCopier::copyStream(is, std::cout);
Finally got the answer after trying for a bit. I was missing a form.write statement after prepareSubmit statement. My final code goes like this which sends post requests as well as file upload requests.
HTTPRequest request(HTTPRequest::HTTP_POST, "/fileupload/upload_file.php", HTTPMessage::HTTP_1_1);
HTMLForm form;
form.setEncoding(HTMLForm::ENCODING_MULTIPART);
form.set("entry1", "value1");
form.set("entry2", "value2");
form.addPart("file", new FilePartSource("/home/abc/Pictures/sample.png"));
form.prepareSubmit(request);
HTTPClientSession *httpSession = new HTTPClientSession("localhost");
httpSession->setTimeout(Poco::Timespan(20, 0));
form.write(httpSession->sendRequest(request));
Poco::Net::HTTPResponse res;
std::istream &is = httpSession->receiveResponse(res);
Poco::StreamCopier::copyStream(is, std::cout);
The corresponding upload server is using standard PHP code for uploading HTML form files.