Troubles with http.post

I'm back, working on my SmartPaste program again, but I am having trouble with some of the code. When I try to login, I get a response from Pastebin, but it's blank. I need it to provide a user key when I am logged in successfully, but it won't do that. I copied over my login code from the existing SmartPaste, but for some reason, it won't work….
Can anyone tell me why?

local function loginScript()
paintutils.drawLine(10,6,40,6, colors.blue)
term.setCursorPos(10, 6)
term.setTextColor(colors.white)
term.setBackgroundColor(colors.blue)
write("Please login")
for i = 1, 7 do
  paintutils.drawLine(10, 6 + i, 40, 6 + i, colors.lightGray)
end
local loginObjects = {
  {name = "Username:",
  nameX = 11,
  nameY = 9,
  color = colors.black,
  BGcolor = colors.lightGray},
  {name = "Username:		 ",
  nameX = 21,
  nameY = 9,
  color = colors.white,
  BGcolor = colors.white},
  {name = "Password:",
  nameX = 11,
  nameY = 11,
  color = colors.black,
  BGcolor = colors.lightGray},
  {name = "Password:		 ",
  nameX = 21,
  nameY = 11,
  color = colors.white,
  BGcolor = colors.white}
  }
for i = 1, #loginObjects do
  term.setCursorPos(loginObjects[i].nameX, loginObjects[i].nameY)
  term.setTextColor(loginObjects[i].color)
  term.setBackgroundColor(loginObjects[i].BGcolor)
  write(loginObjects[i].name)
end

term.setCursorPos(22, 9)
while true do
  username = limitRead(16)
  if username ~= "TEMP_USER" then
   break
  end
end
term.setCursorPos(22, 11)
while true do
  password = limitRead(16, "*")
  if password ~= "TEMP_PASSWORD" then
   break
  end
end
local response = http.post(
	 "http://pastebin.com/api/api_login.php",
	 "api_dev_key="..devKey.."&"..
	 "api_user_name="..textutils.urlEncode(username).."&"..
	 "api_user_password="..textutils.urlEncode(password)
	 )
local badRequests = {
  "Bad API request, invalid login",
  "Bad API request, account not active"
  }
if response then
  local sReponse = response.readAll()
  response.close()
  term.setCursorPos(1,y-1)
  print(sResponse)
  if sResponse == badRequests[1] then
   term.setCursorPos(11,7)
   term.setBackgroundColor(colors.lightGray)
   term.setTextColor(colors.red)
   write("Invalid login!")
  end
end
end

This is just the login function. It's the only thing that is giving me trouble right now.

EDIT: Forgot to add my limitRead() function…. just in case you guys want to run the function.

-- limit read function
local function limitRead(limX, rChar)
term.setCursorBlink(true)
local origX, origY = term.getCursorPos()
local returnString = ""
while true do
  local xPos, yPos = term.getCursorPos()
  local event, p1, p2 = os.pullEvent()
  if event == "char" then
   returnString = returnString..p1
   if not rChar then
    if not limX then
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(p1)
    else
	 if string.len(returnString) >= limX then
	  term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	  term.setCursorPos(origX, origY)
	  write(string.sub(returnString, (string.len(returnString)-limX)+1))
	 elseif string.len(returnString) < limX then
	  term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	  write(p1)
	 end
    end
   else
    if not limX then
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(rChar)
    else
	 if string.len(returnString) >= limX then
	  term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	  term.setCursorPos(origX, origY)
	  write(string.rep(rChar, limX))
	 elseif string.len(returnString) < limX then
	  term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	  write(rChar)
	 end
    end
   end
  elseif event == "key" and p1 == 14 then --backspace
   returnString = string.sub(returnString, 1, (string.len(returnString))-1)
   term.setCursorPos(xPos-1,yPos)
   term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
   write(" ")
   term.setCursorPos(origX, origY)
   if string.len(returnString) >= limX then
    if not rChar then
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(string.sub(returnString, (string.len(returnString)-limX)+1))
    else
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(string.rep(rChar,limX))
    end
   else
    if not rChar then
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(returnString)
    else
	 term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
	 write(string.rep(rChar, string.len(returnString)))
    end
   end
  elseif event == "key" and p1 == 15 then --tab
   break
  elseif event == "key" and p1 == 28 then --enter
   break
  end
end
term.setCursorBlink(false)
return returnString
end

Can we also please have one of the dev keys to test? also whats the key that the user gets?

Oh, yeah. Forgot about that.

local devKey = "3575e50cc6635311078014a550bc3f9f"

That should get you going.
The user key should be a hexadecimal string taken from the table that http.post returns.

Oh wow, your limitRead function is much longer than mine :P/>

Cranium, on 16 January 2013 - 11:46 AM said:

Oh, yeah. Forgot about that.

local devKey = "3575e50cc6635311078014a550bc3f9f"

That should get you going.
The user key should be a hexadecimal string taken from the table that http.post returns.

I cannot see what wrong at all… I've looked over it a few times and it doesn't seem like there should be an issue… just an empty table is returning…………

TheOriginalBIT, on 16 January 2013 - 05:43 PM said:

I cannot see what wrong at all… I've looked over it a few times and it doesn't seem like there should be an issue… just an empty table is returning…………

I know, it should be returning a response. I just don't understand why it is not working…..

Fixed!
(End of loginScript())

local response = http.post(
		 "http://pastebin.com/api/api_login.php", "api_dev_key="..textutils.urlEncode(devKey).."&api_user_name="..textutils.urlEncode(username).."&api_user_password="..textutils.urlEncode(password)
		 ).readAll()
local badRequests = {
  "Bad API request, invalid login",
  "Bad API request, account not active"
  }
if response then
  term.setCursorPos(1,1)
  term.setTextColor(colors.white)
  print(response)
  if sResponse == badRequests[1] then
   term.setCursorPos(11,7)
   term.setBackgroundColor(colors.lightGray)
   term.setTextColor(colors.red)
   write("Invalid login!")
  end
end
end

Not exactly sure where I fixed it, but I did. Pretty sure it had something to do with my moving of readAll().
If you are interested, I was testing with this.

Thanks, Zeke! That really helped! I don't know why adding the .readAll() to the end worked, but it did!

I think it has more something to do with not doing close().

But whatever. Your Welcome! (Remember mai credits)