Contacting and editing server files in Codea

General
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I was just wondering if there was any way of editing or exporting files on a server. I know you can receive images and text files using http.request , but is there any way to upload files directly from Codea to an internet server?

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Use http.request with the POST method.

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@JakAttak Sorry, but is there any way you could explain this more? When you use this method what exactly happens?

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@Staples, something like this:

local headers = {}
headers["Accept"]="text/plain"
headers["Content-Type"]="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
headers["Accept-Charset"]="utf-8"

local data = "thing1=" .. value1 .. "&thing2=" .. value2

http.request(url, success, failure, { method = "POST", headers = headers, data = data })

You could add or remove data entries as you please.

Then it’s up to your sever script to handle the data sent (it is stored in either $_POST or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA for php, I don’t remember which one)