I'm having some problems with sending POST data to a PHP script with NSURLConnection. This is my code:
const char *bytes = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<mydata>%@</mydata>", data] UTF8String]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://myurl.com/script.php"]; NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; [request setHTTPBody:[NSData dataWithBytes:bytes length:strlen(bytes)]]; NSURLResponse *response; NSError *err; NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&err]; NSLog(@"responseData: %@", responseData);
And my script.php is as simple as this:
<?php echo $_POST['mydata']; ?>
This have worked for me in the past, but for some reason the output I get from NSLog(@"responseData: %@", responseData);
now is just "<>" instead of "theData".
Probably some lame mistake somewhere but I can't seem to find it? Any ideas?
Your data is wrong. If you expect the data to be found in the $_POST array of PHP, it should look like this:
const char *bytes = "mydata=Hello%20World";
If you want to send XML Data, you need to set a different HTTP Content Type. E.g. you might set
application/xml; charset=utf-8
If you set no HTTP Content Type, the default type
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
will be used. And this type expects the POST data to have the same format as it would have in a GET request.
However, if you set a different HTTP Content Type, like application/xml, then this data is not added to the $_POST array in PHP. You will have to read the raw from the input stream.
Try this:
NSString * str = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<mydata>%@</mydata>", data]; [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"]; [request setValue:@"application/xml; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"]; [request setHTTPBody:[str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
and on the server try the following PHP:
$handle = fopen("php://input", "rb"); $http_raw_post_data = ''; while (!feof($handle)) { $http_raw_post_data .= fread($handle, 8192); } fclose($handle);
Please note that this only works if the HTTP header of your POST is not application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If it is application/x-www-form-urlencoded then PHP itself reads all the post data, decodes it (splitting it into key/value pairs), and finally adds it to the $_POST array.
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