Re: LYNX-DEV Need Help with post_data

[David Woolley]

> 
> To do it on the command line and *not* have it enter interactive mode:
> echo "name1=val1&name2=val2" | lynx -post_data -dump http://.... >> 
> whatever.filename

Any occurrences of &, space, =, %, and +, at a minimum, need encoding.  Space is
encoded as + and the others as %xx, where xx is their hexadecimal value.
Some software compares the coded values, so coding space as %20 doesn't
always work.

>> should be >, unless you really want to concatentate all the replies - some
Unixes may require you to delete any old file first.

The full rules on unsafe characters and encoding can be obtained by following
the links on HTTP and Forms on http://www.w3c.org/.  (Other characters,
including / and ? are supposed to be encoded.  All this assumes that the
site is capable of handling x-www-urlencoded style forms, and that you are
posting form data, rather than other data.)