How to get post parameters from http request in lua sent to NodeMCU

Question

I sent this HTTP POST request via Tasker (Android app) to my NodeMCU, which looks like this:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User         


        

Answer 1

For the sake of completeness, here is another solution I came up with:

string.gsub(request, "<(%a+)>([^<]+)", function(key, val)
  print(key .. ": " .. val)
end)

A working example using the given HTTP request in your question can be seen here:

https://repl.it/repls/GlamorousAnnualConferences