[SOLVED] POST data with Asynchronous call

[leesiulung]

Basically, I'm writing my own proxy for AJAX using the XMLHttpRequest object. My problem is with an asynchronous call as follows:

 

   if(XMLHttpRequestObject.overrideMimeType) XMLHttpRequestObject.overrideMimeType('text/xml');

   url = 'proxy.php?proxy_url=' + escape('http://www.google.com');  
   XMLHttpRequestObject.open('POST', url, true);
   XMLHttpRequestObject.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
   XMLHttpRequestObject.setRequestHeader('SOAPAction', '""');
   XMLHttpRequestObject.onreadystatechange = getResults;

   XMLHttpRequestObject.send(....)

 

The problem I have is that the proxy.php page is not able to retrieve the information being sent in the $_POST array. Where should this data be? Since the XMLHttpRequestObject does not name the data like a regular POST from a form with fields....

 

How can I retrieve this data?

 

Any help would be much appreciated as I spent many days on this problem.

 

Note, this problem stem from an earlier post that asked a different question. Basically I had to create my own proxy script since the original ones I used did not supply the correct information to the server in the header etc... I can't seem to edit my posts. Is there an edit button I missed?

 

Other thread here

 

edit: found the edit button.

[Glyde]

When posting data, content-type must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded, otherwise the server won't parse the post body.

[leesiulung]

Problem is the given code works without the proxy. With the proxy in place it will not work.

 

Is there any way to get the data with content-type be text/xml?

[Glyde]

Well now I'm really confused.  You're trying to connect through a proxy to google.com?  But, why do you need to submit the data to the proxy as text/xml?

[leesiulung]

Sorry, that url just happens to be there as I was typing it in. I will try to be clearer next time.

 

The correct url is 'http://services.xmethods.net/soap'. I'm trying to send a soap envelope, but with the content-type set at text/xml the proxy.php page does not receive the POSTED data sent by the XMLHttpRequestObject.

 

I will edit the code in original post to reflect this.

 

edit: actually I can't edit the original post as there is no such option on the page.

[Glyde]

You don't need to post as text/xml though, as I don't believe it's required.  However, if it is in fact needed, what you should do is post it as application/x-www-form-urlencoded to the PHP script, then have a POSTBODY attribute such as: contenttype=text/xml&therestofyourdata, then when the proxy connects to the SOAP server, it sends it as text/xml.  But again, at least in Apache/PHP as far as I know, unless the content-type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, data will not be picked up.

[leesiulung]

Tricky situation, but I actually need the AJAX call to set the header to 'text/xml' before the PHP script.

 

Is there a way around this?

[Glyde]

Try reading $GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'].  You'll also have to make sure always_populate_raw_post_data is enabled in php.ini

[leesiulung]

You are a genius!!!

 

The data is right there....

 

Thank you so much!!!

[leesiulung]

Oddly enough my ;always_populate_raw_post_data = On is commented out in my php.ini residing in C:\Windows folder is commented out, yet it works.