how does posting work here (technical details)?

[achow101]

I am writing an android app for this forum (thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1195830.0) and part of the app is actually creating and editing posts. Since bitcointalk doesn't have any api that I can use for posting, the app must scrape the forum pages and send the proper requests in order to do anything. However, I can't seem to figure out how the actual posting mechanism works. I have looked at page source, and I found that clicking the post button submits the form for the post and it has an attribute

Code:

onclick="return submitThisOnce(this)"

which I think is the function that actually does the posting. But my problem is that I can't actually figure out what that is doing, and thus I can't figure out what my app should be doing in order to submit a post.

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[achow101]

bump

[dogie]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=453008.0 updated with http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF_API should help. Both link to further documentation on SM's API which is at least a start for bitcointalk which is a semi-custom SMF implementation.

[theymos]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=453008.0 updated with http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF_API should help. Both link to further documentation on SM's API which is at least a start for bitcointalk which is a semi-custom SMF implementation.

bitcointalk.org is SMF 1.x. That's not going to work.

submitThisOnce doesn't make the post. Just send an HTTP POST in the same way that the form does. Note that you need to pass a valid session key as "sc" (which the form does via a hidden <input>).

[achow101]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=453008.0 updated with http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF_API should help. Both link to further documentation on SM's API which is at least a start for bitcointalk which is a semi-custom SMF implementation.

bitcointalk.org is SMF 1.x. That's not going to work.

submitThisOnce doesn't make the post. Just send an HTTP POST in the same way that the form does. Note that you need to pass a valid session key as "sc" (which the form does via a hidden <input>).

Thanks. I will try that.