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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:21:14+00:00

I am making a POST request from IE using XDomainRequest . XDomainRequest does not

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I am making a POST request from IE using XDomainRequest. XDomainRequest does not sent a Content-Type in his header and it is not possible to set a custom header. I think this causes PHP to not place the post variables in $_POST.

I can see the parameters are send if I use file_get_contents("php://input") but I am not sure how to parse them correctly without breaking them. Is there a way to force PHP to collect the POST parameters? Or how can I get the variables safely?

I am using this transport to get XDomainRequest in jQuery and make this call:

jQuery.post('http://domain.de/io/login', 'email=test2@stuff.de&password=xxx', function(response)
{
    if (console) console.log(response);
    alert('response: ' + objectToString(response));
});

On the PHP side I have:

print_r($_REQUEST, true);
echo file_get_contents("php://input");

Works fine with Firefox. But Firefox does not use the transport.

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  1. Editorial Team

    @hakre: Thanks a lot. Your document describes what no one here belives:

    The body of the request is to be interpreted according to the
    Content-Type header.

    It also mentions parse_str() that does exactly what I needed.

    Here my code to fill $_POST if it was not set by PHP:

    if (count($_POST) == 0)
{
    $request_body = file_get_contents("php://input");
    parse_str($request_body, $_POST);
}

    I would love to give you reputation for this but I don’t know how. Anyway you just got +50 from me, so I hope that will be ok.

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