Capturing post data from C++ application in Codeigniter 4 |
I am upgrading our site from Codeigniter 3 to Codeigniter 4. So far it has been tedious, but mostly gone well. I am running into an issue now with a controller that will not recognize posted values from an app written in C++. This app has been working with CI 3 for many years now, but... well, CI4. I don't know all the details about the C++ app, but the developer assures me he is definitely using HTTP_VERB_POST to send the data to the controller.
I have created a view for the controller and CAN successfully Post values from a form using my browser. However - Posting from the app 1) tells me the request method is GET and 2) NO values at all have been passed. It DOES however - send me the response I would expect if no values are passed to the controller...... After adding the following to my controller: PHP Code: header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); I get the following result: Code: get The last two lines (Activation and Error) are what I would expect to get from this controller if, indeed, no parameters are sent. Oh - and no, I do not have CSRF (except for default Cookie based CSRF Protection) enabled in my CI 4 application. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Here is the line from the C++ app that calls the controller in question:
Code: subscriptioninfo = pSession->OpenRequest(CHttpConnection::HTTP_VERB_POST, address, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, INTERNET_FLAG_SECURE | INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD | INTERNET_FLAG_DONT_CACHE);
I’m not familiar with the C++ code but I’m with you: the incoming request is clearly GET method. You could try writing some unit tests or using Insomnia/Postman to verify your app’s functionality apart from the C++ client.
One suggestion: try capturing the entire Request to the logs to see if there are any other “gotchas” in there. Something like from your controller: log_message('debug', print_r($this->request, true));
One last thought… make sure your server is configured correctly. It would be unusual, but I could imagine some SSL forwarding or server proxy affecting the incoming HTTP method inadvertently.
Also do not use the access control * use the full url link. for security reasons.
Code: Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "https://yoursite.com" What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?
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05-16-2022, 05:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-17-2022, 08:35 AM by junosapien. Edit Reason: addintional info )
Thanks for the input. I've tried a number of different things (including Postman, which works), and think the issue is that CI4 is not receiving the Content-Type header from the C++ app (it is explicitly set with this:
Code: CString strHeaders = _T("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); Here is a simple print of the headers received by both CI4 and CI3 on the same server. (I have copied my old CI3 app to a directory called 'dev' inside the Public directory of CI4.) Headers from CI3 in Public folder host: test.site.com Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Cookie: ci_session=9do54stine1po2c0tren49gr17eq068g User-Agent: CustomName X-Forwarded-For: 96.68.149.126 X-Forwarded-Port: 443 X-Forwarded-Proto: https Content-Length: 164 Connection: keep-alive Response from CI3 Subscription number: 9999999999999999 Activation: No Error: Activation Key does not exist. Headers from CI4 host: test.site.com Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Cookie: ci_session=g6v3qlgms2bv3ijv19hpl3cgnvnbg4kk User-Agent: CustomName X-Forwarded-For: 96.68.149.126 X-Forwarded-Port: 443 X-Forwarded-Proto: https Connection: keep-alive Response from CI4 Subscription number: Activation: No Error: No parameters sent. As you can see - the C++ app connects to the CI3 controller, with the Content-Type in the header and returns what I would expect given the parameters I passed in. However, CI4 is not receiving the Content-Type header and tells me that no parameters were passed. Any thoughts as to why CI4 would be unable to recognize the Content-Type sent by the C++ app?
OK - So I do not know if I have gone off on the right path or not, but while reading this post on Stackoverflow, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4919...st-request, I noticed one of the comments on one of the answers:
“In my case, my form had action="mysite.com/somefolder and that caused the $_POST to be empty. But when I changed the action to mysite.com/somefolder/ it worked as expected.” And then I see that in CI4 (as opposed to CI3) the URLs/URIs are indeed missing that trailing slash in the server variables ($_SERVER): CI4 [SCRIPT_URL] => /verification/activation [SCRIPT_URI] => http://test.mysite.com/verification/activation [REQUEST_URI] => /verification/activation CI3 [SCRIPT_URL] => /dev/verification/activation/ [SCRIPT_URI] => http://test.mysite.com/dev/verification/activation/ [REQUEST_URI] => /dev/verification/activation/ Could this be the problem? Why/how would the trailing slash be removed? (I checked the C++ app and it DOES include the trailing slash in the url to which it posts the data.)
.htaccess
Code: # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
Yes - I found that last night after I made the previous post. Sadly, changing that made no difference. I am back to square one.
If you're using Apache as your web server, then commenting out the .htaccess directives makes a difference, and then the backslash at the end of the URI won't matter.
For the test/dev server (php spark serve), the backslash has no effect on route processing. PHP Code: $routes->get('form', static function() { |
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