Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at doing Http POST and GET requests in Cincom Smalltalk - VisualWorks or ObjectStudio. The examples I used are below; they hit a simple servlet I have on a test server in my office. To skip to the video now, click here.

"Do a simple GET"
response := HttpClient new 
	get: 'http://victoria:8011/blog/servlet/TestBlogServlet'

"Do a POST request for a site that should be there"
postData := OrderedCollection with: 'blog' -> 'blog'.
client := HttpClient new.
request := HttpRequest 
	method: 'POST' 
	url: 'http://victoria:8011/blog/servlet/TestBlogServlet'.
request formData: postData.
client executeRequest: request.

"Do a POST request for a site that should not be there"
postData := OrderedCollection with: 'blog' -> 'foo'.
client := HttpClient new.
request := HttpRequest 
	method: 'POST' 
	url: 'http://victoria:8011/blog/servlet/TestBlogServlet'.
request formData: postData.
client executeRequest: request.

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