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HTTP Post in 7.5b

I have setup an HTTP action
Put: Post form data
Get: Get to macro
URL: myurl.php
Macro: PostResponse
Do not escape special characters: not checked
Transfer type: ASCII
Form Data: action=3&program_date=07/06/2010
Logging: All + Hex dump

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The php script I'm posting to is not getting the Form Data.
The Hex dump is not showing the Form Data.

Any suggestions?

[correction]
I didn't look high enough, the data did get sent. The PHP script isn't seeing the data though.

I'm not sure. Testing the attached sample w/ 7.5b on Windows XP SP3 produces the expected output of

Echoing submitted form data

Echoing submitted form data

`Comments`	`xyz`
`box`	`yes`

Processed 2010-07-06T16:01Z

http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthre...?threadid=3044

I downloaded Fiddler to discover the problem. It appears when posting data the Content-Type header needs to be set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'.

This worked in the 6.x version I was using prior to upgrading the system and software.

Watching what is posted via VBP

Code:

POST http://powerchurchsoftware.com/test/index.php HTTP/1.1

Host: powerchurchsoftware.com

Content-Length: 19



action=3&version=A0

returns

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:34:18 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Content-Length: 13

Content-Type: text/html



array(0) {

}

Changing the post to this:

Code:

POST http://powerchurchsoftware.com/test/index.php HTTP/1.1

Host: powerchurchsoftware.com

Content-Length: 19

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded



action=3&version=A0

Properly returns the array

Code:



HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:45:51 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Content-Length: 77

Content-Type: text/html



array(2) {

  ["action"]=>

  string(1) "3"

  ["version"]=>

  string(2) "A0"

}

Add a value that requires encoding (spaces or special characters, i.e., action=3&version=A0
&x=a b). The version of the third-party networking component used in v7 only adds the Content-Type header if there are values that require encoding.

OK, added an extra variable and the array is filled in.

Thank you.

Also, in v7.6, you can explicitly set header values (Options tab).

I like that idea better.
Thanks for the new release.