Today I want to describe how you can send some data to web-server from your remote script using TWebBrowser component.
var
strData: string ;
PostData: OleVariant;
Headers: OleVariant;
i: Integer;
begin
{ 1. you must create a string with parameter names and values
Result string must be in the next format:
Param1=Value1&Param2=Value2&Param3=Value3... }
strData : = ' Param1Name= ' + HTTPEncode(Param1Value) + ' & ' +
' Param2Name= ' + HttpEncode(Param2Value) + ...;
{ 2. you must convert a string into variant array of bytes and
every character from string is a value in array }
PostData : = VarArrayCreate([ 0 , Length(strData) - 1 ], varByte);
{ copy the ordinal value of the character into the PostData array }
for i : = 1 to Length(strData) do
PostData[i - 1 ] : = Ord(strData[i]);
{ 3. prepare headers which will be sent to remote web-server }
Headers : = ' Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded ' + # 10 # 13 ;
{ 4. you must navigate to the URL with your script and send as parameters
your array with POST-data and headers }
yourWebBrowserComponent.Navigate( ' http://www.yourdomain.com/your_post_script.asp ' , EmptyParam, EmptyParam, PostData, Headers);
end ;
strData: string ;
PostData: OleVariant;
Headers: OleVariant;
i: Integer;
begin
{ 1. you must create a string with parameter names and values
Result string must be in the next format:
Param1=Value1&Param2=Value2&Param3=Value3... }
strData : = ' Param1Name= ' + HTTPEncode(Param1Value) + ' & ' +
' Param2Name= ' + HttpEncode(Param2Value) + ...;
{ 2. you must convert a string into variant array of bytes and
every character from string is a value in array }
PostData : = VarArrayCreate([ 0 , Length(strData) - 1 ], varByte);
{ copy the ordinal value of the character into the PostData array }
for i : = 1 to Length(strData) do
PostData[i - 1 ] : = Ord(strData[i]);
{ 3. prepare headers which will be sent to remote web-server }
Headers : = ' Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded ' + # 10 # 13 ;
{ 4. you must navigate to the URL with your script and send as parameters
your array with POST-data and headers }
yourWebBrowserComponent.Navigate( ' http://www.yourdomain.com/your_post_script.asp ' , EmptyParam, EmptyParam, PostData, Headers);
end ;
Of course, the same task can be solved with any internet component which implement the http-client (not only TWebBrowser). But for every component the data for script will be posted by own rules (most components have pre-defined properties for this task).