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I'm sure there's a really simple answer here and maybe I'm Googling for the wrong thing but I can't for the life of me figure out how to read data from the client when I'm the webserver. Just how to handle posts to specific URL's. For example...

The server receive the post as arguments, for example :

IMHO this can not be done in standard Arduino Core library. You have to use AsyncWebserver and hook receiving callback like this

then www_bodyXMLrules (change the name ) is invoked periodically as data arrive to webserver...

EDIT!!! - Maybe i'm wrong and You can handle this even in standard core - try to study HTTPUpload object... (anyway i'm using Async - it's faster, supports multiple connections and websockets in one port...)

martinayotte wrote:The server receive the post as arguments, for example :

Code: Select all  if (server.args() > 0 ) {
    if (server.hasArg("password")) {
      pw = webserver.arg("password");
      Serial.println(pw);
    }


Are these like the headers in a POST?

Pablo2048 wrote:IMHO this can not be done in standard Arduino Core library. You have to use AsyncWebserver and hook receiving callback like this

Code: Select all  www.on("/saverulesxml", HTTP_POST, www_XMLrules, NULL, www_bodyXMLrules);


then www_bodyXMLrules (change the name ) is invoked periodically as data arrive to webserver...

That seems surprising, I can't imagine it's an exceptionally uncommon thing to want to do. Even if I could just get all of the raw data sent by the client I'm happy to parse it myself. Any way to just get EVERYTHING in the POST?