Sending POST Requests

This section describes how to send POST requests synchronously. During the request sending process, the threads are blocked until the requests are sent successfully. The TLS1.2 security protocol is supported, and the timeout period is set to 20 seconds.

API Calling

int hilens::POST(const std::string & url, const Json::Value & body, long & httpcode, std::string * response = NULL, POSTHeaders * headers = NULL)

Parameter Description

**Table 1** Parameters
Parameter	Description
url	Uniform resource locator
body	JSON object of the message body
httpcode	The return value of the HTTP request. If the Return Value is 200, the request is sent successfully. If the return value is 404, the requested page does not exist.
response	Response. This parameter can be left blank.
headers	Request header. If this parameter is left blank, the header is ignored. typedef std::vector<std::string> hilens::POSTHeaders The header of a called POST request can be transferred as a POST parameter (for example, headers.push_back("Content-Type: application/json").