This is actually not a solution as is not solving Dirk's problem. The
'A' will make the isset($_POST['data']) to be always true. Another thing
is that the $_POST['data'] is still not containing the binary code that
is expected as the PHP will get the & and will start a new variable
A solution will be the base64_encode() which is the safest way to
transport binary data over the net.
Another one will be a simple rawurlencode() which is supposed to solve
exactly this problem and on the server you shouldn't do any decode
after. However I can't grant you that your binary will correctly survive.
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Dan Baker wrote:
"Dirk Vanden Boer" <dirk.vdb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:67.98.45151.2CE5BF34@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I have a C++ application that posts binary data to a php script that I
created using libcurl. Everything works fine except when my binary data
happens to start with the '&' symbol. In that case I can't read the http
post data (isset returns false).
The post argument then looks like data=&ÑÚA
Reading the post is done like this:
if (isset($_POST['data'])
Is there a way to fix this problem?
A quick-n-dirty method is to prepend a known letter to the data, like an
"A":
data=A&ÑÚA
Then, ignore the first character of the data, since it is known to be the
"A" character.
I would think that if the data contains an "&" in the middle of the data,
you may not be getting all the data.
"data=ABC&xyz=123"
$_POST['data'] = "ABC"
$_POST['xyz'] = "123"
DanB
