[wp-hackers] Sending checkbox parameters to a non-PHP script using wp_remote_post

[Ryan McCue]

Mike Walsh wrote:
> My question is this - what does the HTTP request look like and can I mimic
> it with wp_remote_post()?  I am not sure how to take the values for my PHP
> array "icecream[]" and configure the parameters for wp_remote_post() so all
> the checked values will be sent to Google which is expecting a parameter
> called "icecream".

The raw HTTP data to the PHP script will look something like:

	icecream[]=a&icecream[]=b&icecream[]=c

It sounds like what you'll want for the other API is something like:

	icecream=a&icecream=b&icecream=c

To do that, you'll have to create the string yourself and send that as
the 'body' option to wp_remote_post(), as it appears http_build_query()
and family don't handle this (which IIRC, is what WP_Http will use
internally).

(If you want to doublecheck any of this, try sending a GET/POST request
to one of the http://httpbin.org/ URLs; they're fantastic for testing with.)

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Ryan McCue
<http://ryanmccue.info/>