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URLLoader using POST fails to send variables

hopefully this is simple and I'm just missing something obvious. I'm trying to hit a php page using POST data and load the response. what actually happens is the php page is hit using POST but without data. if I navigateToURL with the URLRequest instead of URLLoader.load, the data is sent.

Code:

import flash.events.*;

import flash.net.*;



some_button.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, _handle_click);



function _handle_click( in_mouse_event:MouseEvent):void {

        

        var url_variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();

        url_variables.a = 1;

        url_variables.b = 2;



        var url_request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "index.php");

        url_request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

        url_request.data = url_variables;

        

        var url_loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

        url_loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;

        url_loader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, _handle_complete);

        url_loader.addEventListener( IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, _handle_io_error);

        url_loader.load( url_request);

        //navigateToURL( url_request);

}



function _handle_complete( in_event:Event):void {

        trace( "complete");

}

function _handle_io_error( in_event:IOErrorEvent):void {

        trace( "io error");

}

thank you for any help

I don't see anything wrong with your code unless I'm missing something... what does your php look like, is it set to grab the vars _POST or _GET?

thanks for your reply creatify! the php isn't doing anything other than

PHP Code:


		
			
print_r( $_POST);

I'll make an example and post it.

sorry! I'd been misdiagnosing a problem. I'd been watching the requests and responses using firebug (and firebug lied!). the code had been working correctly all along. I only figured it out after trying to build an example that traced out the response w/o firebug. thanks for your help!

Hi, pseudobiotic
i use so:
var sendData="param1=xxx.xx&param2=yyyy...yy"
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(sendData);
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest();
request.url = "web.com";
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
request.data = variables;
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(evt:Event):void {
completeHandler(evt, clik.target)});

cool! thanks for your reply SarK0Y

pseudobiotic - I have this exact problem - all POST data is empty when I replay the request in Live HTTp Headers (firefox add-on) the POStT array is empty?? although I can see POST data in the header???

navigateToURL() - posts the data just fine and this is really baffling me

ActionScript Code:

var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(postData);
variables.key = 'dsfsgh';         
variables.desc = 'dsfsfds'  
        
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(_submissionURL);
request.method  = URLRequestMethod.POST;            
request.data = variables;   
        
_subLoader = new URLLoader();
_subLoader.addEventListener( Event.COMPLETE, submissionCompleteHandler );
_subLoader.addEventListener( HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, onHTTPStatus );
_subLoader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
_subLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES
_subLoader.load( request );

can anyone help?

cheers

the solution to my problem was that 'replaying' the request from flash in 'http live headers' and 'tamper data' add-ons for firefox didnt not replay them as flash had sent them and caused problems reading the POST data in php.

I hope that helps others!