trivial seaside test thingie

> I'd like to do something that I am sure is exceedingly trivial, but not sure
> how to start:
>
> I want to route an existing app to POST to a webpage and then examine all
> the header/body info from within seaside/pharo.
>
>
> I realize this is trivial, but the brain isn't working. COuld I have a hint?
>
>
> THanks.
>
>
>
> Lawson
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> Register an Application and POST to that URL. In your root component,
> implement #initialRequest: and look inside the passed-in Request
> object for the POST fields.
>
> At least that's one way of doing it. Another, depending on what you're
> trying to accomplish, would be to write your own RequestHandler.
>
> Julian
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Lawson English <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> I'd like to do something that I am sure is exceedingly trivial, but not sure
>> how to start:
>>
>> I want to route an existing app to POST to a webpage and then examine all
>> the header/body info from within seaside/pharo.
>>
>>
>> I realize this is trivial, but the brain isn't working. COuld I have a hint?
>>
>>
>> THanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lawson
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>> seaside mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
>>
>>    
>
>  

> 2009/11/13 Lawson English <[hidden email]>:
>  
>> initialRequest: aRequest
>>
>>   Transcript show: ((aRequest fields) associationsDo: [:value | Transcript
>> show: value;cr]).
>>
>>
>>
>> just shows 'a Dictionary' in the Transcript window. But I know that the POST
>> contains 1707 bytes although I can't figure out how to see them.
>>    
>
> Do you want the raw POST body or the post fields?
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
>  

> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>
>> 2009/11/13 Lawson English <[hidden email]>:
>>
>>>
>>> initialRequest: aRequest
>>>
>>>  Transcript show: ((aRequest fields) associationsDo: [:value | Transcript
>>> show: value;cr]).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> just shows 'a Dictionary' in the Transcript window. But I know that the
>>> POST
>>> contains 1707 bytes although I can't figure out how to see them.
>>>
>>
>> Do you want the raw POST body or the post fields?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>
> The raw body at this point. I'm trying to figure out how to fake an xmlrpc
> call from squeak and cutting /pasting from netcat apparently isn't working,
> so I'd like to see how Phara is portraying the raw data.

> 2009/11/13 Lawson English <[hidden email]>:
>  
>> Philippe Marschall wrote:
>>    
>>> 2009/11/13 Lawson English <[hidden email]>:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> initialRequest: aRequest
>>>>
>>>>  Transcript show: ((aRequest fields) associationsDo: [:value | Transcript
>>>> show: value;cr]).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> just shows 'a Dictionary' in the Transcript window. But I know that the
>>>> POST
>>>> contains 1707 bytes although I can't figure out how to see them.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Do you want the raw POST body or the post fields?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Philippe
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>> The raw body at this point. I'm trying to figure out how to fake an xmlrpc
>> call from squeak and cutting /pasting from netcat apparently isn't working,
>> so I'd like to see how Phara is portraying the raw data.
>>    
>
> So you just need if for debugging/reverse engineering purposes? If so
> I've always made good experiences with tcpdump to dump the data and
> Wireshark to analyze the data.
>
> If you really need it for the implementation then you need to switch
> to Seaside 3.0 and send #rawBody to the request.
>
>
>