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YWSW wrote:In the API tutorial multiform/form-data is used as the content-type. Then, the tutorial uses $_POST[''] to get the posts. This never seems to work for me as all my $_POST[' '] turn out null. A quick google search shows that many other people have this same issue (see,for example, https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=26004), and I have not yet found a good solution.
Why was it working for the tutorial? What needs to be done?

YWSW wrote:this is my own private cloud server (for which I have full control over). I can use $_POST everywhere on this server except when accessing this multipart/form-data content type used in the tutorial. It seems that everyone is having this issue- except for this tutorial here...

$boundary	 = md5(microtime(true));
		
		$post = '';
		foreach($fs_request as $name => $value){
			$post .= "--{$boundary}\r\n";
			$post .= "Content-Disposition: form-data; name= \"{$name}\"\r\n\r\n";
			$post .= "{$value}\r\n";	
		}
		$post .= "--{$boundary}--\r\n";
		
		if(isset($url['query']))
			$head = "POST {$url['path']}?{url['query']} HTTP/1.1\r\n";
		else
			$head = "POST {$url['path']} HTTP/1.1\r\n";
		
		$head .= "HOST: {$url['host']}\r\n";
		$head .= "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary= \"{$boundary}\"\r\n";
		$head .= "Content-Length: ".strlen($post). "\r\n";
		$head .= "Connection: close \r\n\r\n";
		
		$socket = fsockopen($url['host'], ((isset($url['port'])) ? $url['port'] : 80));
		
		fwrite($socket, "{$head}{$post}");
		
		echo stream_get_contents($socket);

$post .= "Content-Disposition: form-data; name= \"{$name}\"\r\n\r\n";

$head = "POST {$url['path']}?{url['query']} HTTP/1.1\r\n";

YWSW wrote:sorry, but it still does not work...
(you were correct about the missing $ but that was only if there was a GET which there was not)

echo $head, $post;