Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305101914150.29543-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-10T18:16:07Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Http Get-Post
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.31.0305101843120.21355-100000@molgix.molgen.mpg.de>
They are just text that you write to a socket, so try
help.search("socket")
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Eryk Wolski wrote:
> How can i send http Post and Get messages to a Web server from within R?
> Is there something like?
> form(action="http://big.thing.inf/cgi-bin/answer.pl",list(test="my",something="there"),method="POST")
> Or is is there an example how to write it with R?
> What functions to use to write such a function?
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