Form sends GET instead of POST

Question

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I have a website running on apache2. I need to submit sensitive information through a form and I need to use POST method. Instead of POST, it sends GET request.

HTML:

<form action="/add_user.php" method='POST'>
   Enter Username: <input type="email" name="email" required="required" /> <br/>
   Enter password: <input type="password" name="password" required="required" /> <br/>
   <input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>

PHP:

<?php

$email=$_POST['email']; 
$password=$_POST['password'];
//do stuff
?>

I have opened Network monitor in Firefox, and the method is confirmed as GET. I have tried to even make it PUT instead of POST, still it sends GET. Also, $email and $password get the values if I change them to $_GET instead of $_POST.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If like me you gone from Routed url (like in Laravel) to plain PHP, and wonder why the file /user/store/index.php responds that it receives a GET request using:

<form method="POST" action="/user/store">
  <input type="text" id="user_name" name="user_name" />
  <button type="submit">Create a new user</button>
</form>

Just check it again... Yes you forgot a trailing slash... so /user/store will receives only get, while /user/store/ will receive what you form requested.

Edit

I inspected what Laravel does, and it solves this particular issue with this addition in their .htaccess (check the original file).

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]