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

You cannot use loadvars like this - because data can be either 1 or 2 or 3, not all of them at the same time.

You can either pass it as a comma separated list:

var req:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
req["data"] = "1,2,3";

or as an xml string, and parse it at the server. I am not familiar with manipulating xml in AS2, but this is how you'd do it in AS3:

var xml:XML = ;
xml.appendChild(1);
xml.appendChild(2);
xml.appendChild(3);

//now pass it to loadvars
req["data"] = xml.toXMLString();

The string you send is:

  1
  2
  3