DevOps, CI/CD and Automation

Hi,

I am trying to work out how to use the POST method to mimic submitting data from a HTML form, using utl_http.

I cannot use SOAP for this as the people I am sending the data to are just expecting an XML document to be sent to a standard CGI script running on their web server.

There is a lot of documentation on how to submit data using the POST method (using Utl_Http.Write_Text etc), but I cannot find anything that tells me how to submit form variables.

The examples on OTN say this:

"Alternatively use method => 'POST' and Utl_Http.Write_Text to
build an arbitrarily long message"

but don't tell me how to actually place the data into the required input parameters of the CGI program I am hitting.

I need to hit a URL such as

www.asite.com/cgiprogram

and pass in a parameter, eg

in_param="test+data"

I am currently doing this as a GET, which works, but the XML document I am passing in could potentially be bigger than the GET method will allow.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Leon.