HTTP POST from inside Oracle
A while ago Robert and Pete blogged about Oracle’s UTL_HTTP package. Robert gave an example of how to use this package to request a web page from the Internet into Oracle and Pete mentioned that you could do the opposite, i.e. post data from Oracle to the Internet. Recently I had a requirement to do just that, HTTP post data from the Oracle database to another web server. So, I wrote the following generic procedure util_pkg.http_post. Here it is followed by an example of how to use it (tested on 9.2): (more…)
