Hello,

I have problem with http:send-request. I want to send post method request with form data but I encountered problem with characters encoding.

Example:

Request:

for $x in http:send-request(

  <http:request method='post' href='http://localhost:3333'>

    <http:header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36"/>

    <http:body media-type='application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'>

    <![CDATA[start=0&length=100&sort=date_type&page=0&size=100]]>

    </http:body>

  </http:request> 

)[2]/json/data/results/content

return $x

Optimized Query:

util:item-at(http:send-request(element Q{http://expath.org/ns/http-client}request { (attribute method { ("post") }, attribute href { ("http://localhost:3333") }, element Q{http://expath.org/ns/http-client}header { (attribute name { ("User-Agent") }, attribute value { ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36") }) }, element Q{http://expath.org/ns/http-client}body { (attribute media-type { ("application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8") }, "&#xA;    start=0&amp;length=100&amp;sort=date_type&amp;page=0&amp;size=100&#xA;    ") }) }), 2)/json/data/results/content

Request send:

POST / HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

Host: copart.com:3333

Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Length: 75

    start=0&amp;length=100&amp;sort=date_type&amp;page=0&amp;size=100

Payload is not correctly encoded it should be:

start=0&length=100&sort=date_type&page=0&size=100

How can I force function http:send-request to serialize CDATA without escaping ?

Best Regards

Bogdan Bogucki