HTTP requests to a web service (how to?)

[trooperscoop]

Hi B4GL people,

I have read the Networking guide, and most all of the others, as well as searched the board and read through all the titles of posts in the DLL section and cannot find what I am looking for.

In short, I want to have a "high score" board in my game. Not just a local one though, one for world-wide scores. I must be able to send a new high score, like this:

www.mysite.com/newscore.php?nickname=blah&score=1000

Also, I want to pull the latest top 10 score for display using:

www.mysite.com/getscores.php?results=10


The big question: Can I make these kinds of HTTP requests somehow from within my program, and receive the response text for processing?

Thanks,
Andrew

[matthew]

It shouldn't be that difficult to achieve as there has already been something similar added to the thinBasic language where high-scores for games are uploaded to the thinBasic forum.

You might want to take a look at the TCP plugin, maybe that would be of some use.

[aphoticgenesis]

this program uses an HTTP request but it was made in C++, it could be made into a dll for basic4gl

basic4gl.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=misc&action=display&thread=3023&page=1

[DJLinux]

the TCP Plugin is the right choice
you can send and receive strings
i posted an http get example