mobile url headers

[SparkOut]

Is there ANY way to workaround the issue of libUrl not being completely workable on mobile? I specifically need to be able to read the headers returned from a POST request. (Posting user credentials, the site returns a cookie with the sessionID or other headers that can be parsed for failure, but without being able to catch the received headers, I can't parse.)
This isn't for "actually" logging into a website, just for user validation on to match a name on the device to a user account, so other libUrl features aren't really an issue. But I really need to be able to parse the returned headers OR find another way round this problem - any ideas?

[SparkOut]

It's important to be able to catch the generated headers, as this site will redirect to the relevant page by outputting a location: header, which cannot be intercepted on Android afaik, and which the device does not follow (since it is not a browser instance). All that happens in this case is that the redirect times out and that's the only result that can be caught by the device (ie "timeout"). If I could catch the header which provides the redirect location then I could set the success status from that. I don't even need to catch cookies being set in this case (although that would be ideal). Is there any way to achieve what I need on Android? Please?

[MaxV]

This page can help you: http://web-sniffer.net/

[SparkOut]

Er max, how?

I am fully aware how to intercept and parse headers on desktop, from within my apps and browsers and external tools. However, to implement a POST to a website from a LiveCode app on mobile (specifically in my case Android) there is nothing received which is available to check. No libUrlLastRHHeaders equivalent. Not even "the result" contains anything useful.

[MaxV]

That URL requires to fill the cachpta, this not:
http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

You can use code like:

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put URL ("http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/?page=single&url=" & myUrl & "&useragent=1&typeProtocol=11")

[SparkOut]

Hi Max

Again, I do NOT need any external or third party header checkers. Within the app when I post data to a service I need to be able to check the response from the server. Using any number of tools/sites I can see the returned headers and parse them. Except from within Android (or iOS) app, it is impossible to intercept the headers and check what page response is being made. libURL is not implemented fully for mobile in LC. What I need is an equivalent for libURLLastRHHeaders.

Is there a way to examine received headers from within a mobile app?

[jacque]

Without libURL I think you're out of luck. You could try a feature request in the QCC and stress that your project depends on it.

[SparkOut]

There are already entries in QCC for this. I don't understand why libURLLastRHHeaders was never ported with the rest of the partial set of libUrl features. <sigh>

[jacque]

LibURL wasn't really ported. Instead, a couple of native mobile functions were implemented independently by platform. Almost all of libURL is missing, and basically only the ability to POST and GET (and maybe another I don't remember) were written.