How to post request on Qt?

[Roberrt]

I'm making a post request with the following code:

QNetworkAccessManager* manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);

QNetworkRequest request;
request.setUrl(QUrl("http://127.0.0.1:3001/api/users/login"));
request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader, 
	"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

QByteArray postData;
postData.append(R"({"email": ")")
	.append(p->ui->email->toPlainText().toStdString())
	.append("\", ")
	.append(R"("password": ")")
	.append(p->ui->password->toPlainText().toStdString())
	.append("\"}");

qDebug() << "postData: " << postData;

QNetworkReply* reply = manager->post(request, postData);

// Connect the finished signal to a slot to handle the response
connect(reply, &QNetworkReply::finished, [reply, this]
{
	if(reply->error() == QNetworkReply::NoError)
	{
		QByteArray response = reply->readAll();
		qDebug() << "response: " << response;

	}
	else // handle error
	{
	         qDebug() << reply->errorString();
	}

	reply->deleteLater();
});

the value printed by qDebug() << "postData: " << postData; is :

postData:  "{\"email\": \"123\", \"password\": \"123\"}"

However, I'm receiving a string literal on the javascript side:

email, and the password is undefined.

When i manually request using reqbin

{"email": "123", "password": "123"}

The request I receive:

email and password are 123.

I also tried:

	QByteArray postData;
	postData.append("{\"email\": \"")
		.append(p->ui->email->toPlainText().toStdString())
		.append("\", ")
		.append("\"password\": \"")
		.append(p->ui->password->toPlainText().toStdString())
		.append("\"}");

But receive the same kind of request, what i'm doing wrong?

[Roberrt]

QNetworkRequest request;
	request.setUrl(QUrl("http://127.0.0.1:3001/api/users/login"));
	request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest::ContentTypeHeader, 
		"application/json");

	QJsonObject json;
	json.insert("email", "test");
	json.insert("password", "123");

	QJsonDocument doc(json);
	QByteArray postData = doc.toJson();

	qDebug() << "postData: " << postData;

	QNetworkReply* reply = manager->post(request, postData);

this worked.

Is QNetworkRequest as 'secure' than lib curl? it does use OpenSSL by default or do I need to do something to activate it?

Asking because I have no experience in this topic.

[jsulm]

@Roberrt said in How to post request on Qt?:

it does use OpenSSL by default

It uses SSL for https URLs. http does not require SSL.
To be able to access https URLs in your app you will also need to deploy OpenSSL libraries with your app. Qt already provides them.