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httpclient
http://exist-db.org/xquery/httpclient
A module for performing HTTP requests as a client
post-form
httpclient:post-form($url as xs:anyURI, $content as element(), $persist as xs:boolean, $request-headers as element()?) item()
Performs a HTTP POST request for a form. This method returns the HTTP response encoded as an XML fragment, that looks as follows: <httpclient:response xmlns:httpclient="http://exist-db.org/xquery/httpclient" statusCode="200"><httpclient:headers><httpclient:header name="name" value="value"/>...</httpclient:headers><httpclient:body type="xml|xhtml|text|binary" mimetype="returned content mimetype">body content</httpclient:body></httpclient:response> where XML body content will be returned as a Node, HTML body content will be tidied into an XML compatible form, a body with mime-type of "text/..." will be returned as a URLEncoded string, and any other body content will be returned as xs:base64Binary encoded data.
$urlThe URL to process
$contentThe form data in the format <httpclient:fields><httpclient:field name="" value="" type="string|file"/>...</httpclient:fields>. If the field values will be suitably URLEncoded and sent with the mime type application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
$persistThe to indicate if the cookies persist for the query lifetime
$request-headersAny HTTP Request Headers to set in the form <headers><header name="" value=""/></headers>
Returns the XML body content
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