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Tyralcori
Tyralcori

Reputation: 1047

NodeJS - Request, does not proceed with POST / JSON

Trying to submit a JSON-Object through my site via nodeJS - Request.

var options = {
        uri: 'http://localhost/test.php',
        method: 'POST',
        json: {
            "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"
        }
    };

    request(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            console.log(body)
        }
    });

On my test.php script, i am simply writing the $_REQUEST vars via json_encode in a debug file:

<?php

file_put_contents('test.debug.txt', "TEST: " . json_encode($_REQUEST) . json_encode($_POST));

Apparently the $_POST contains nothing. For a first debug-step, i wrote the parameters in my URL, to check if the PHP Script is working:

var options = {
        uri: 'http://localhost/test.php?debug=1',
        method: 'POST',
        json: {
            "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"
        }
    };

    request(options, function (error, response, body) {
        if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
            console.log(body)
        }
    });

And this additional debug=1 made it so i can see {'debug':1} as an output in my debug file. So my question right now: What happened to the POST Variables?

Output from the NodeJS Request:

0|server  |   request:
0|server  |    Request {
0|server  |      _events:
0|server  |       [Object: null prototype] {
0|server  |         error: [Function: bound ],
0|server  |         complete: [Function: bound ],
0|server  |         pipe: [Function],
0|server  |         data: [Function],
0|server  |         end: [Function] },
0|server  |      _eventsCount: 5,
0|server  |      _maxListeners: undefined,
0|server  |      method: 'POST',
0|server  |      body:
0|server  |       '{"longUrl":""http://www.google.com/"}',

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (1)

1565986223
1565986223

Reputation: 6718

If you're using the npm request package, the proper way to post json is (doc):

options = {
  uri: 'http://localhost/test.php',
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"
  }),
  json: true
}

Update: Try this to send as application/x-www-form-urlencoded

options = {
  uri: 'http://localhost/test.php',
  method: 'POST',
  form: {
    "longUrl": "http://www.google.com/"
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

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