Question

I’m posting data from a Flex app to a php script. GET works fine but POST doesn’t seem to transmit anything. as3httpclintlib is the library I’m working with, however, I kind of doubt that is the problem, because replicating the request in php gives me the same result. I’ve looked around and while there seem to be multiple issues similar to this, none of the proposed suggestions worked.

My php.ini looks good from what I can tell, however I did recently recompile Apache and PHP.

//php.ini
...
variables_order = "EGPCS"
register_globals = off
register_argc_argv = On
post_max_size = 8M
gpc_order = "GPC"
...

the request body is pretty simple:

data={\"id\":0,\"password\":\"abcdefg\",\"name\":\"testUser\",\"createdOn\":null,\"apikey\":\"hijklmn\"}

it looks weird w/ all the slashes, but I stripslashes() and it works fine… usually.

So, it’s not Flash, because a request from PHP acts the same way. It’s not the request — seemingly — because an identical GET works fine, Content-Type is set to ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the recent compilation but that’s about as far as I have been able to take it. Thank you for any suggestions.

Apache 2.2
PHP 5.3.3

UPDATE: Still haven’t gotten it working, but it looks like it might be apart of my Apache configuration. I didn’t think anything I did was substandard, but I am not seeing many other solutions. Is there anything in particular I should look for to check against my config?

UPDATE 2: After recompiling Apache and PHP with only the required modules and extensions it worked fine. I had some extra stuff loaded for future use, perhaps…. perhaps it was one of those that was throwing things off.

Answer 1

I had the same problem with PHP 5.3.2 Suhosin-Patch and a htaccess file overriding:

php_value post_max_size = 150M

Here is a one line workaround :

parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_POST);