Revisions to Complete exasperation with sending POST requests to StackOverflow

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edited Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31

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I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcat, I was able to post one comment one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: httphttps://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcat, I was able to post one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcat, I was able to post one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

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edited Apr 23, 2014 at 13:35

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I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcatnetcat, I was able to post one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcat, I was able to post one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

I am trying to send a POST request to Meta using my account... but it's just not working very well. Using netcat, I was able to post one comment, but I have had no luck getting it to work with a PHP script.

I used a TCP monitor to capture the packets going back and forth between my browser and the server and managed to figure out some of it.

I am hoping someone on the team can help me here. Here is the POST request I'm sending:

POST /posts/51812/comments HTTP/1.1
Host: meta.stackoverflow.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
Accept: text/html, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/
Cookie: usr=*********; somusr=*********
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Length: 87

comment=This+comment+was+posted+from+someplace...&fkey=********

As you can see, a normal request. I have a few questions though:

What is the fkey parameter for? Where does it come from? What I have been doing thus far is fetching the page I want to post the comment on and using a RegEx to dig up the value.
Why does the server return the following and what does it mean?

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: /error?aspxerrorpath=/posts/51812/comments
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:44:07 GMT
Content-Length: 171
...

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.