Recently, I started using Postman to send a POST request to an "Api server" built with Codeigniter 3 (which only prints the $GLOBALS variable). However, when I make the call, the body data doesn't appear. So, I decided to try a small script using CURL:
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost/internalportal/Api/autoLogin",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode(array('user' => 'testUser', 'password' => '123')),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"Authorization: Bearer 2B003E46-674F-48A9-ADD5-101D25322E21",
"Content-Type: application/json",
"Accept: application/json"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo "<pre>$response</pre>";
Surprisingly, this displays the same response as before:
[_GET] => Array()
[_POST] => Array ()
[_SERVER] => Array (
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
[CONTENT_TYPE] => application/json
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*
[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate, br
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => keep-alive
[CONTENT_LENGTH] => 52
[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
[REQUEST_SCHEME] => http
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /localhost/internalportal/index.php
[REMOTE_PORT] => 55366
[REDIRECT_URL] => /localhost/internalportal/Api/autoLogin
[REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING] => /Api/autoLogin
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1
[REQUEST_METHOD] => POST
[QUERY_STRING] =>
[REQUEST_URI] => /localhost/internalportal/Api/autoLogin
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /localhost/internalportal/index.php
[PHP_SELF] => /localhost/internalportal/index.php
)
Unfortunately, no "POST" data is being shown. It's puzzling why it's not working as expected.