To answer my own question (and maybe help someone else), it turns out
my web server was sending chunked responses and inserting chunk sizes
before each data chunk.
Changing the line:
request<-paste("POST ",path," HTTP/1.1\nHost: ",host...
to
request<-paste("POST ",path," HTTP/1.0\nHost: ",hos
My followup question went unanswered in another thread, so I thought
I'd start a new one and rephrase it.
I need to use CGI POST to retrieve data from a server, so thanks to
Duncan's suggestion, I used the httpRequest package as example code
for doing so. BUT, I have another problem. The
