With php, syntax 1 transfers the POST data to php (where they can be referenced as $HTTP_POST_VARS or get listed using phpinfo() ) and syntax 2 completely fails to do so.
A perl cgi, on the other hand, recieves POST data regardless which syntax you choose.
Test Results:
Some tests here apparently indicate that director (authoring, exe, shockwave)
fails to submit form data to PHP scripts via POST while the very same
operation succeeds if the form data handler is a PERL script.
Submitting the form data via GET works fine, too.
The test results did not vary if I tried it in DfW 7.02 or DfW 8.51, both
under w2kSp3. The results remained the same with PERL and PHP running under
Apache 1.3.26 on my w2k box or Apache on my ISPs Linux 7.2
Testers confirmed that postNetText w/PHP also fails on MSIE 5.1 and NS 6.2. /MacOS 9.2.2,
or from SW & in authoring /W2K, IE 6.0.
I'm at a loss on why this happens or why it happens here while another
poster saw no problems.
An unexpected result, looks like a bug to me.
Olivier BATAILLE remarked: With syntax 2 the Content-type of the http request (POST) is fixed to 'text/plain' but with syntax 1 it is fixed to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (necessary for CGI queries).
Test Form:
Details:
(steps to repro from the messWin):
There are 2 bare bones form data handler that just echo the data:
