Display Post Data

[walexman]

I want to display the actual post request that the server has recieved. I've tried using echo "RAW_POST_DATA" but that seems to output nothing or ÿØÿà

 

I'm trying to format my own posts, and am having a lot of trouble, is there a way to do this with PHP? I want to experiment by seeing whats actually being recieved but I can't figure out how. I've read lots about formatting multipart/form-data POSTS but I haven't been able to have even the slightest success in figuring out how you actually write/send them.

[Foser]

I'm a bit comfused in what you are trying to accomplish. If you want to echo out a form field you can use $_POST which is a global variable. $_POST['form_area_name'];

[pdkv2]

use

<?php
print_r($_POST);
?>

 

 

Cheers !

[walexman]

no, posts are apparently sent with a certain formatting which the server then interprets. I'm not trying to read the POST data, I know how to do that. I am trying to see the formatting of the actual post request that was sent. I'm trying to generate a post request that I can send to a client's CMS. For example, this is a post request generated by flash when uploading a file. What I would like to do is generate one of those of my own.

 

  POST /handler.cfm HTTP/1.1

  Accept: text/*

  Content-Type: multipart/form-data;

  boundary=----------Ij5ae0ae0KM7GI3KM7ei4cH2ei4gL6

  User-Agent: Shockwave Flash

  Host: www.example.com

  Content-Length: 421

  Connection: Keep-Alive

  Cache-Control: no-cache

 

  ------------Ij5GI3GI3ei4GI3ei4KM7GI3KM7KM7

  Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Filename"

 

  MyFile.jpg

  ------------Ij5GI3GI3ei4GI3ei4KM7GI3KM7KM7

  Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photo"; filename="MyFile.jpg"

  Content-Type: application/octet-stream

 

  FileDataHere

  ------------Ij5GI3GI3ei4GI3ei4KM7GI3KM7KM7

  Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Upload"

 

  Submit Query

  ------------Ij5GI3GI3ei4GI3ei4KM7GI3KM7KM7--