Hi all,

i have a question about POSTing formdata to PHP Scripts.
I know the usual URLencoding like
?blah=blah&blub=blub ... and that worked fine for PHP 1,2,3 . When I try that at PHP 5 it doesn\'t work for me. Maybe I am doing something wrong this time.

I had the same problem at another website\'s php script where I had to write some python script, that passed a POST Request to the webserver encoding the Data using MIME standard.

So far the introduction, now my questions/guesses:

Correct? Yes or no:
a) Url-Encoding of formdata passes a GET to the webserver which has a different behavior than POST depending on the script you pass it to?

b) Url-Encoding of formdata does not work always. Sometimes you have to use a POST.

Now two more questions:
1) Is there a faster way to do this, than writing a script in some language?

2) Am I bothering you with longish questions and do you prefere telling me some links with info for that?

Thanks for your time,
Domoran

Hello,

a) Yes, because the script can figure out whether the data was posted or passed by get ($HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTTP_GET_VARS for example). The encoding of data can also be different (look at enctype-attribute of the form-tag; but this should not be for interest of the receiving script (decoding is done by PHP as far as I noticed that)).
b) You can pass every data via GET. The Problem is, that GET has a length limitition (it is passed as part of the request-line). With POST, there is no length-limitition for the data.

1. Well, write a Socket-program

I hope I could help you a little bit.

bye Erik