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[DerRaphael]

Introduction

hi all
This is a small function for handling POST and GET queries natively in AHK so external utilities to handle it are not needed any more. It can be used where no additional utilities, such as cURL or wget are wanted.
The latest version handles following features:



• ports in URL
  
• Username:Password@domain style URLs (see this answer to avoid common problems)
  
• SSL aka https
  
• HeaderInformations / Dumping / Storing
  
• DownloadSizes / CurrentSize (for download progressbars)
  
• Flags for InternetConnection handling (auto follow feature etc)
  
• Referrer for Queries
  
• Accepttypes for Queries
  
• Proxy handling
  
• timeout handling
  
• custom UserAgent
  

Usage

Usage is pretty simple:
You need to define a Variable which will receive the returned databuffer.
When only Strings are expected as returnvalues, autohotkey needs to learn the new size, so a VarSetCapacity(buffer,-1) is needed. This has been modified to support binary downloads aswell.
httpQUERY(buffer:="",URL) will result the length of the standard HTML which is usually retrieved. The html itself is stored in the variable buffer. The query method is GET as the length of Postparams is zero.
httpQUERY(buffer:="",URL,POSTDATA) will work as the GET above just with POSTDATA being transmitted. The query method is POST as the length of Postparams is non zero.
The URL now supports following scheme:
http://username:password@server.tld:80/path/to/target.ext?queryops#fragment

since httpQuery has been updated to use InternetCrackURL from winINet, all essential parts will be recognized. so there is no need to set up any additional parameters. Attention: When u need to authetificate in the Website the username / password attempt will not work. u have to submit those parameters via POST or GET method.

Additional Parameters:
To see a dump of the received httpHeaders, there is buildIn support for a global Variable named httpQueryOps. It may consist of one or more Verbs. For now "showHeader", "storeHeader", and "updateSize" verbs are supported. If You use storeHeader the complete Header will be saved in a variable named HttpQueryHeader which will be made global at runtime. The verb updateSize will make two variables globally Available: httpQueryFullSize and httpQueryCurrentSize. An usage example to show a download status indicator is included

Following Variables are evaluated globally:
httpAgent: can hold an individual UserAgent Code. The default is AutoHotkeyScript
httpProxy: the name of a proxy server to use. default = 0
httpProxyByPass: list of domains which will not be used with the proxy. default = 0
httpQueryReferer: an URL which is recognized by QueriedServer, as the location where the Request was generated mind though its "Referrer" the name of the variable is httpQueryReferer [sic]
httpQueryAcceptType: this variable lets u specify your accepted stream formats for the results of the query
httpQueryDwFlags: if in need for any special flags for the current connection this is the variable to set (example V shows an useCase for this feat)

I think these are pretty self explaining.

Examples

Example I: Showing the raw HTML result of a search for httpQuery in AutoHotkey's forum in an edit control

[Guest]

Thanks god we have native http function now

[Joy2DWorld]

clean!


the IF structure

[engunneer]

the regex is needed due to odd urls such as: http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?i=3720009&l=http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_9797611
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[Joy2DWorld]

and the "IF" structure is needed for ?
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[neXt]

so this function can be used in auto login scripts? Can someone post an example if yes please.

P.S. Nice work DerRaphael!
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simplified csv - easy way to handle csv files.

[heresy]

random xkcd comics getter

LButton : Drag GUI
LButton Double Click : change image
RButton : Exitapp

[DerRaphael]

updated example section for a form dumper

derRaphael

[n-l-i-d]

Nice!

But isn't there a typo in your code?

[heresy]

Getting first hit from google search.
looping the regex part will get the whole result

[tank]

Very interesting DerRaphael
very very interesting
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[tank]

wow been toying a bit here might end up canning my own library this is impressive
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[DerRaphael]

fixed typo, thx n-l-i-d
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[ahklerner]

I wrapped the WinInet.dll functions to be StdLib compatible. It can be found here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33561

The WININET lib includes the functionality above as well as the FTP functions that were spread across the forum. This allows a single include that can be utilized for HTTP and FTP communication.
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[bigsalgo911]

So this works great...however. I am having a problem getting this to work with any variables in the POSTdata field.

Here is the code I'm using: