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What may be wrong with my php http post function

Hello,
I have a php file that sends content to a server. Please see the code snippet below. The curl.exec() wont work except i append the api params to the posted url. It seems the code works as a Get method and not Post.

See code :

$sender = $_POST['sender'];
 
 
 
$message = $_POST['message'];
//addressGroup
$r_source = $_POST['r_source']; 
if($r_source=="0"){
$receiver = $_POST['receiver'];
}
else{
 // do something 
}
 

$request = "";
 $username7 = $_SESSION['username'];
		$password7 = $_SESSION['password'];
$param["username"] = $username7; //the account username provided by gateway provider
 

$param["filenumber"] = $receiver; //the recipient of the message
 
$param["senderid"] = $sender; //the message sender
 
$param["message"] = $message; //the message that will be sent
 
 
 
 
 
foreach($param as $key=>$val){
 
$request.= $key."=".urlencode($val);
 
$request.= "&";
 
}
 
 
 
$request = substr($request, 0, strlen($request)-1); 
 
 
 
$url = "http://xyz.com/send.ashx?".$request; //the gateway's interface provided by the gateway provider
 
 
 
$ch = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 
$response = curl_exec($ch);

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Ray Paseur

GET and POST are different methods and are intended for different purposes. If the API expects a GET request, it will likely not work well with POST. This is normal and expected behavior. So I think to make this work you would omit these settings:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);

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mosuncoker

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It works as get here.
Could you give me a code snippet for php http post

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