Sending HTTP request with multiple parameters having same name

Question

I need to send a HTTP request (and get XML response) from Flash that looks similar to following:

http://example.com/somepath?data=1&data=2&data=3
         


        

Answer 1

Disclaimer; I've never used Actionscript and have no means for testing this.

Putting the same variable name with several values on the query string is the standard way of sending multi-value variables (for example form checkboxes) to web servers. If LoadVars is capable of sending multiple values then it seems plausible that the values should be stored in an array:

req["someParam1"] = ["foo","bar","bas"];

There also seems to be a decode function to LoadVars, what happens if you try to import the query string you want into the object?:

req.decode("someParam1=foo&someParam1=bar&someParam1=bas");