HttpRequest passing POST parameters?

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sandfella

(Posted 2013) [#1]

it's pretty obvious that GET call can use something like these:

get_req = New HttpRequest("GET", "http://www.domain.com/index.php?a=1&b=2", Self)

But what about POST requests? Any way to add parameters 'a=1' and 'b=2'?

UPDATE: this works -->

post_req = New HttpRequest("POST", "http://www.mysite.com/index.php", Self)
post_req.Send("a=Hello World!&b=2", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

marksibly

(Posted 2013) [#2]

If you change "GET" to "POST" it should just work 'as is' - and dont' forget to use Send( data:String ) instead of Send() to send the request data.

sandfella

(Posted 2013) [#3]

I noticed that the example has "hello world" as the data string, how do I catch this in the server side php? I tried print_r($_POST) which showed empty stuff.

I'll give it another go, but to me it didn't seem to work as is..

sandfella

(Posted 2013) [#4]

Here's my monkey/android code:

post_req = New HttpRequest("POST", "http://www.site.com/index.php?a=3&b=4", Self)
post_req.Send("a=Hello World!&b=2")

And here's the server side php:

<?php


echo "a: " . $_POST["a"];
echo "\n";
echo "b: " . $_POST["b"];
echo "\n";
echo "c: " . $_POST["c"];
echo "\n";
echo "d: " . $_POST["d"];
echo "\n";

echo "a GET:".$_GET["a"];
echo "\n";

print_r($_POST);
print_r($_REQUEST);


?>

And here's the output:

I/[Monkey](  807): Status=200

I/[Monkey](  807): ResponseText=a: 

I/[Monkey](  807): b: 

I/[Monkey](  807): c: 

I/[Monkey](  807): d: 

I/[Monkey](  807): a GET:3

I/[Monkey](  807): Array

I/[Monkey](  807): (

I/[Monkey](  807): )

I/[Monkey](  807): Array

I/[Monkey](  807): (

I/[Monkey](  807):     [a] => 3

I/[Monkey](  807):     [b] => 4

I/[Monkey](  807): )

As you can see, all the POST variables are empty.

...but the $_GET["a"] works just fine.

So... back to clarify my orignal question: how do I can send POST variables?

marksibly

(Posted 2013) [#5]

Ok, you apparently need to set variables in the post body...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14551194/how-are-parameters-sent-in-an-http-post-request

When you do the send, you'll also have to use "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" for the mimeType parameter.

sandfella

(Posted 2013) [#6]

Ok. Will try it out.

What the "data" does / can be used?

sandfella

(Posted 2013) [#7]

Yeh... now it works.

So basically I now have this code:

post_req = New HttpRequest("POST", "http://www.mysite.com/index.php?a=3&b=4", Self)
post_req.Send("a=Hello World!&b=2", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

And I received the response properly:

ResponseText=a: Hello World!
I/[Monkey](13708): b: 2
I/[Monkey](13708): c: 
I/[Monkey](13708): d: 
I/[Monkey](13708): a GET:3

So all good. Thanks!

Prime_8

(Posted 2014) [#8]

POST variables are empty.

i get this too , bu in my PHP

	Method OnCreate()
		' 
		SetUpdateRate 1000
		
		Local myURL:String = "yourURL.php"
' after the ? in the uri you can have vars 
		get_req = New HttpRequest("GET", myURL + "?user=Monkey_8_GET&pass=getOne", Self)
		get_req.Send
		
		' localhost:80/testcont/
		post_req = New HttpRequest("POST", myURL + "?user=Monkey_8_POST&pass=postOne", Self)
		'need : enctype="multipart/form-data"
		'post_req.SetHeader("enctype", "text/plain") 
' but this shows in $rawdata = file_get_contents('php://input');  php side 
		post_req.Send "some,big,CSV,string,that,could,have,162763663763,all,the,telemetry,needed"
			
		
	End

<?php
// 
$rawdata = file_get_contents('php://input');
echo "This is the content: " . $rawdata ." :". PHP_EOL . "<BR>" ;

$flatFile = 'dope.txt' ;
if( file_exists($flatFile)){
	$valToAdd = file_get_contents($flatFile);

	$valToAdd .= $user . " : " . $pass . PHP_EOL . $rawdata . PHP_EOL ;//   curPageURL() ."\n" ;

	file_put_contents( $flatFile , $valToAdd , LOCK_EX );
	echo PHP_EOL ;
}

?>