Re: [Libevent-users] Beginners' question: multi-threaded HTTP service

[Mark Ellzey <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:45:17AM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> 
> On Nov 20, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Pander wrote:
> 
> >
> >only this works:
> >
> >char buf[1024];
> >int n;
> >while ((n = evbuffer_remove(req->buffer_in, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
> >   fwrite(buf, 1, n, stdout);
> >}
> >printf("\n");
> 
> Because in POST, browsers send the parameters in the request body.
> 
> For example, this form (assuming that your client is a browser):
> 
> <form method="POST">
> 	<input type="hidden" name="a" value="1">
> 	<input type="hidden" name="b" value="2">
> 	<input type="submit">
> </form>
> 
> Will turn into this POST request:
> 
> POST /path HTTP/1.1
> Content-Length: 7
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
> a=1&b=2
> 

the exported function from the documentation:

/**
 * @brief Parses the query portion of the uri into a set of key/values
 *
 * Parses query arguments like "?herp=derp&foo=bar;blah=baz"
 *
 * @param query data containing the uri query arguments
 * @param len size of the data
 *
 * @return evhtp_query_t * on success, NULL on error
 */
evhtp_query_t * evhtp_parse_query(const char * query, size_t len);
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