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copied!<p>I feel stupid asking this question, but I've been wrestling with it for hours and I don't know where else to turn. </p> <p>I have a flash form that is making a POST request to a php script, and then displays the output of the said script. For the sake of simplicity, let's say this is the php script:</p> <pre><code>echo 'Mail sent to: ' . $_POST['recipientEmail']; </code></pre> <p>When I submit the form, I see this in Firebug's net tab in the line made by the POST request:</p> <pre><code>Referer: http://example.com/my.swf Content-type: text/html Content-length: 68 recipientEmail=example@example.com </code></pre> <p>All well and good on the surface. The post has been made, it sent the right variable to the script. But when the response comes back, this is what I see in my Flash tracer:</p> <pre><code>Mail sent to: </code></pre> <p>In other words, the $_POST['recipientEmail'] has been lost after the request went out of my browser. </p> <p>What do you think is happening here? Both the script and the swf file are in the same domain, same server.</p> <p>EDIT: I just tried hitting the same script from an HTML form, and it catches the $_POST header. So it's only not catching it when it's sent by Flash. The post tab in Firebug looks a little different than it is with flash:</p> <pre><code>recipientEmail example@example.com submit Submit </code></pre> <p>Notice each variable is in its own line.</p> <p>EDIT: Here is the relevant AS3 code that makes the submission:</p> <pre><code> var _gateway:String = Share.getGateway(); var request:URLRequest; var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables(); var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); request = new URLRequest(_gateway); request.contentType = 'text/html'; request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; variables.senderName = senderName.text; variables.recipientEmail = recipientEmail.text; variables.senderMessage = senderMessage.text; request.data = variables; try { loader.load(request); }catch (error:Error) { Debug.trace("Unable to load requested document."); } </code></pre>

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