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Description
Performs an HTTP post of the specified data to the specified URL. Typically the data associated with a post operation is form-encoded text, but it could be any type of data that the server expects to receive.
Arguments
URL
, dataToPost
, {contentType}
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The first argument is an absolute URL on a Web server; if "http://" is omitted from the URL, it is assumed. |
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The second argument is the data to be posted. If the third argument is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" or omitted, dataToPost must be form-encoded according to section 8.2.1 of the RFC 1866 specification (available at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1866.html). |
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The third argument is the content type of the data to be posted. If omitted, this argument defaults to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" . |
Returns
An object that represents the reply from the server. The data
property of this object is a string containing the data resulting from the post operation.
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