Http.post

In Mini Micro, the http.post function sends data to a URL using the POST method and returns the contents of the URL using the HTTP POST protocol. It supports text, images, sounds, and raw binary data.

Arguments

Parameter Name	Meaning
url	URL of the web page or resource to fetch
data	Data to post can be a string or a map
headers	optional map of HTTP headers

Usage Notes

The type of the value returned depends on the MIME type reported by the server, as follows:

MIME Type	MiniScript Type
image	Image object
audio	Sound object
text, javascript, xml, or json	string
any other type	RawData object

Example

The following example, typed on the Mini Micro command line posts form data, retrieves a response, and displays Hello World from the test site http://postman-echo.com.

import "json"
request = http.post("http://postman-echo.com/post", {"data":"Hello World"})
request_data = json.parse(request)
request_data.form.data