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Have you tried using Graham's http-tools? http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=http-tools.r

hmm.. crap. http-tools.r follows my own naming convention

why not  better-http-tools.r   ;-)

not-grahams-http-tools.r?

my-http-tools.r  ;-)

graham, how about if I call my http-tools.r http-query-tools.r instead?

http-tools is a good example.  I have some stuff, you have some stuff, 
there is A LOT of it here and there.

here is an error I got trying to go to the http-tools.r script...

Not Found


The requested URL /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r was not found 
on this server.


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying 
to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.rebol.org Port 80

I used a variant of the http-tools.r script, composed the correct 
header, and then insert the headers, and then switched the port to 
binary before inserting the payload

Ok, I'll try to hack the http-tools.r, see if I can get anything 
done. I saw a script written in python claiming to do multipart uploads, 
but I hope I can get it working in Rebol, which for me is always 
first choice.

Graham described what needs to be done (I used a variant of the http-tools.r 
script, composed the correct header, and then insert the headers, 
and then switched the port to binary before inserting the payload). 
Only it's a little a bit above my capacities. In other words, I'll 
need two weeks to do it, if I ever manage it.

Graham, I'm a big fan of http-tools.r (I believe you wrote it,right?). 
I used it in my DYNdns client that I wrote in Rebol. I realized only 
recently that some of the functionality was built-in.(Basic authenticaion 
with read/custom). Grrrr... if only you hadn't thrown those upload 
scripts away :)

Daniel, I wrote http-tools.r before there was a read/custom .. that's 
how old the script is!

REBOL [
    Title: "Http tools"
    Date: 14-Dec-2000
    Version: 0.0.3
    File: %http-tools.r
    Author: "Graham Chiu"

Hmm, im using http-tools , I login to a page which sends a cookie 
which I then have to send back everytime, however the cookie seems 
to expire after one post :/

anyone user http-tools off of rebol.org ?

I wrote http-tools, but haven't used it for years.

maybe you should change name as there is already script with such 
a name in the library http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=http-tools.r

Well, it's thanks to you Graham. I noticed that the original twitter 
client in RebolTutorial used your http-tools.r

I think this is a Graham question. I've been trying to communicate 
with this video encoder. It uses .xml and .cgi files to talk to it:
tmp: http-tools http://192.168.1.62/user/GetTTLStatus.xml[]
and this works fine.


The problem is with he .cgi files. They aren't POST files but they 
only return 

 a: http-tools http://192.168.1.62/user/StorageMediaFiles.cgi[] probe 
 a
make object! [
    HTTP-Response: "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>"
    Date: none
    Server: none
    Last-Modified: none
    Accept-Ranges: none
    Content-Encoding: none
    Content-Type: none
    Content-Length: none
    Location: none
    Expires: none
    Referer: none
    Connection: none
    Set-Cookie: none
]
When you place the url in a browser it works as expected. 
Any ideas on how to get this to work?

And you're right, there is probably something else going on. I am 
at least getting part of the message. A successful .xml call looks 
like this:

a: http-tools http://192.168.1.62/user/StorageEventMode.xml[] probe 
a
make object! [
    HTTP-Response: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
    Date: none
    Server: "Mango DSP - HTTP Server (v2.34)"
    Last-Modified: none
    Accept-Ranges: none
    Content-Encoding: none
    Content-Type: "text/xml"
    Content-Length: "270"
    Location: none
    Expires: none
    Referer: none
    Connection: none
    Set-Cookie: none
    Cache-Control: "no-store"
    content: {<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="StorageEventMode.xsl"?>
<StorageEventMode>
^-<RecOnNetworkFailure id="RecOnNetworkFailure" checked="true"/>
^-<PreEventBufferTime id="PreEventBufferTime" value="20"/>
</StorageEventMode>
}
]

Problem almost solved. The http-tools'  http-port-private buffer 
is not being read to the end so all along the data was there. Thanks 
Graham and Sunanda...I am learning a lot from you.

Again, this might be a Graham question: I'm still working with that 
video encoder which uses http to communicate. They have a .cgi script 
which downloads the recorded video file from the internal SD card 
to the requester. My problem is the content I receive is somehow 
different than the files which I can download via a browser and of 
course will not play. I still using your http-tools to GET/POST. 
My initial thought was that  data returned is somehow being translated. 
Any thoughts?