Works very well in VFP.

Start with this

oHTTP = CREATEOBJECT("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
oHTTP.open("POST", "http://...", .F.)
? oHTTP.send()
? oHTTP.responseText

Descriptions for the members of the class you can get here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms760305(v=VS.85).aspx