Catch POST response from API with 302 status - php

I am trying to catch POST response send to me by external API.
The problem is that POST array is completely empty while I can check in firebug that browser recieved it but with codes 302 FOUND and second (with same body) with code 307 TEMPORARY REDIRECT:
Is there any way to grab this data inside my script or is this something wrong with server re-directions?

If you are using the CURL library, there are two options that help with your case:
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_HEADER,1);
This returns the response header including the status code. You can see whether 302 is returned.
Or you can simply follow the redirect
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
Edit: sorry just saw you were doing this on the client side.
If this is an AJAX call, you can get the status code in the raw XHR object.

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Slim3 redirect GET request as POST request

Just started learning Slim3. Have been spending some time figuring out how to perform redirects with overriding original request type with no success.
I want the /origin route to perform the redirect to /dest route.
/origin route receives GET request performs validation and after success redirects with POST request to /dest uri route. Here is the screenshot. I think I am doing something dumb here:
$app->get('/origin', function($req,$res,$args)
{
$req= $req->withHeader('X-Http-Method-Override','POST');
return $res->withRedirect('/dest');
});
$app->post('/dest', function($req,$res,$args)
{
echo "this is destination page";
});
As noted in the comment, this is not possible as the request made by the browser is not in your control.
When you call ->withRedirect() you are sending a status code of 302 and a Location header to the HTTP client (web browser usually).
The web browser sees the 302 status code and then issues a new request to the URL in the Location header. The server has no control over this request and every web browser makes a GET request.
Now, if you want to redirect a POST request to another URL and keep the same POST method, then you can use the 307 status code with a Location header and the browser should do the right thing. Note that this code does not let you change a GET into a POST - it just keeps the same method as the original request for the followup redirection request.

php http post response for web hook

I'm trying to create a web hook notification. The documentation of the service i want to use requires that i specify a URL where POST requests can be performed. This URL will receive the following object, in json format, and must respond with a Status Code between 200-299.
{
"type": "ping"
}
I don't know how to proceed making my server on localhost respond with a 200 status code. http_response_code(200) works well on live server but nothing seem to be happening on localhost.
Is there any way i can make it work with localhost?
I've included the link to the documentation here (i hope it's not against the rule).
I am thinking that you wouldn't have to send them the response. The webhook would know about the response. If it reached your URL successfully, it would be a 200 OK right off the bat. If the API is requesting a response back then I imagine that you would have to call it back somehow. Is this a well-known API? Any documentation?
The response code is in the response header, not in the content.
PHP defaults to a response code of 200, so if you don't mess with it at all, you should be good.
If you want to set a different response code (202 for example), just call:
http_response_code(202);
Or set the full header yourself:
header('HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted');
Proper way to explicitly set 200 (or any other) status code with http_response_code function is just as following (don't echo or json_encode it):
http_response_code(200);
It should force webserver to use 200 status code in it's response. However, webserver could possibly ignore it. To check what response code your webserver sends, use telnet or any REST tool like Postman

Return a HTTP 200 Code to the POST client?

I have a server sending POST to me. I need to reply with HTTP 200 OK.
Server needs kind of like a "Go Ahead!" prompt before it executes another action.
It requires a HTTP 200 response.
EDIT
I've tried the header(), but the server for some reason won't read it?
The 200 code is a standard response to a successful request... Even echoing out an empty json string would result in a 200 OK status.
echo json_encode(array());
If all you want to do is signal to your client that some process was completed, you can just echo back a custom status message or even a blank object like I demonstrated above.
If you want to actually manually send the 200 header you can do so like this -
header('Status: 200');
Make sure that this header is send before you have any output from the server.
This function call does the job:
http_response_code(200);
See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.http-response-code.php
This function call can be thrown anywhere in the server code -- the order of when this function is called does not seem to matter.

Cross-domain AJAX request error on HTTP 200

I'm writing a very basic Facebook app, but I'm encountering an issue with cross-domain AJAX requests (using jQuery).
I've written a proxy page to make requests to the graph via cURL that I'm calling via AJAX. I can visit the page in the browser and see it has the correct output, but requesting the page via always causes jQuery to fire the error handler callback.
So I have two files:
Proxy, which does the cURL request
<?php
//Do some cURL requests, manipulate some data
//return it as JSON
print json_encode($data);
?>
The facebook canvas, which contains this AJAX call
$.getJSON("http://myDomain.com/proxy.php?get=stuff",
function(JSON)
{
alert("success");
})
.error(function(err)
{
alert("err");
});
Inspecting the call with Firebug shows it returns with HTTP code 200 OK, but the error handler is always fired, and no content is returned. This happens whether I set Content-Type: application/json or not.
I have written JSON-returning APIs in PHP before using AJAX and never had this trouble.
What could be causing the request to always trigger the error handler?
Recently I experienced the same issue and my problem was the fact that there was a domain difference between the webpage and the API, due to the SSL.
The web page got a HTTP address (http://myDomain.com) and the content I was requesting with JQuery was on the same domain but HTTPS protocol (https://myDomain.com). The browser (Chrome in this case) considered that the domains were differents (the first one with HTTP, the second one with HTTPS), just because of the protocol, and because the request response type was "application/json", the browser did not allowed it.
Basically, the request worked fine, but your browser did not allowed the response content.
I had to add a "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header to make it work. If you're in the same case, have a look there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/http_access_control.
I hope that'll help you, I got a headache myself.

AJAX, Subdomains and the 200 OK response

A non-hypothetical but abstracted situation:
I have a domain www.foo.com, from which I'm making an AJAX POST to beta.foo.com. Examining the XHR object, I see a response header of 200 OK, but no response text - I even get a response 12B long, which is the exact response (a 12-character string) that I'm expecting - but the response text is blank.
If this is a cross-domain issue, why am I getting 200 OK, and better yet - why am I seeing the PHP functions fire on the beta.foo.com side - yet getting no response?
You can't do cross subdomains ajax calls that easy. There is something called Same origin policy that prevents you from doing that. If you want sort this issue you need to use JSONP or Iframes.
Install firebug and you will see an http 200 code and an error: that error is SOP acting.
You mentioned that you're checking the responseText property. Is it possible your response is in XML format?
If you send an XML request, or the response type is 'text/xml', you will get a value for responseXML. I believe that the responseText property can be blank if it's in XML format.
Random example from google:
http://javascript.about.com/library/blajax08.htm

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