webpage not printing winsock information - php

Question

I am trying to send data from a winsock application to a PHP script. I have already tried various header types without any success and I can't seem to find enough information.
Data is sent, but the PHP script is not printing any results, so I think the error is headers types.
C Winsock code
int main()
{
SOCKADDR_IN sock;
SOCKET s;
WSADATA wsa;
int lengthofrequest = 0;
char httprequest[180] =
"POST /test.php?name=alex&password=secret HTTP/1.1\r\n"
"Host: 127.0.0.1\r\n"
"Pragma: no-cache\r\n"
"Content-type: text/html\r\n"
"Connection: close\r\n"
"Content-Length: 25\r\n"
"\r\n";
lengthofrequest = strlen(httprequest);
// init winsock
if (WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsa) != 0)
return WSASYSNOTREADY;
sock.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
sock.sin_family = AF_INET;
sock.sin_port = htons(80);
// create socket
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
if (s == INVALID_SOCKET)
return 1;
// connect to the http panel
int conn = connect(s, (SOCKADDR*)&sock, sizeof(sock));
if (conn < 0)
return 1;
// send http header
send(s, httprequest, lengthofrequest, 0);
// close socket
closesocket(s);
WSACleanup();
return 0;
}
PHP script
<?php
if(isset($_POST['name'], $_POST['password']))
{
echo $_POST['name'];
echo $_POST['password'];
}
?>
I would appreciate any help or guidance. Thanks.

Answer 1

You are mixing post and get
Use $_GET to access your data because your data is appended to the url
Try this:
<?php
if(isset($_GET['name'], $_GET['password']))
{
echo $_GET['name'];
echo $_GET['password'];
}
this should work but you should consider changing your request type to GET in the C code as well to make your code clear and simple
What you are doin here is ambiguous:
"POST /test.php?name=alex&password=secret HTTP/1.1\r\n"
Because you are sending get parameters using post and the post body is actually empty.
Also you should omit ?> at the end of your php script.