Reading data posted with XMLHttprequest

[Peter Gaunt]

I'm trying to post a form (using POST not GET) using the xmlHttpRequest
object. I cannot work out how to get PHP (4.1.2) to read the data which
I'm submitting. Everything works fine if I use GET I can just read it
from $_GET. If I use POST nothing appears in $_POST.

To try to use the POST method I'm encoding the fields into a URL
encoded string and sending it as the parameter to the request.send()
function from Javascript. /Something/ is going out because I can see it
in the LiveHHTPHeaders extension to Firefox. Presumably it's being
received by the server. But how on earth do I get at it!? Been driving
me completely crazy.

Help!

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[Janwillem Borleffs]

Peter Gaunt wrote:

To try to use the POST method I'm encoding the fields into a URL
encoded string and sending it as the parameter to the request.send()
function from Javascript. /Something/ is going out because I can see
it in the LiveHHTPHeaders extension to Firefox. Presumably it's being
received by the server. But how on earth do I get at it!? Been driving
me completely crazy.

I have never worked with XMLHttpRequest, but when the data is posted and the
data doesn't show up in the $_POST array, it's probably sent as raw post
data.

To get this data, you should enable the always_populate_raw_post_data
directive in your php.ini file, after which you should be able to receive
the data through the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable.
JW

[Peter Gaunt]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

To get this data, you should enable the always_populate_raw_post_data
directive in your php.ini file, after which you should be able to receive
the data through the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable.

Thanks!

Works a treat. I'd been hunting around all day for this information.

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[y5]

to use the $_POST global without enabling the raw data in php.ini, tr
the following code

objXMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type'
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
objXMLHttpRequest.send('var=value&var2=value2')

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

y5 wrote:

to use the $_POST global without enabling the raw data in php.ini, try the following code:

objXMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type',
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
objXMLHttpRequest.send('var=value&var2=value2');

Or simply, file_get_contents('php://input');

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