Redirect problem with PHP $_POST

[NKoufou]

Hi,

I have recently purchased a domain that is setup to redirect traffic to my old freedom2surf webspace. The DNS entry looks as follows:

www.koufou.net CNAME server0019.freedom2surf.net

server0019.freedom2surf.net somehow maps to nkoufou.f2s.com (not sure how that works).

I have a PHP script on nkoufou.f2s.com that accepts POST requests and writes into a database. When I send the request to my old URL (www.nkoufou.f2s.com) everything works fine. When sent to (www.koufou.net) then $_POST has nothing in it.

I have the following debug code that record all POSTS to a log file:

$myFile = "l120.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'a');
foreach( $_POST as $key => $value){
    fwrite($fh, $key." - ".$value."\n");
}
fclose($fh);

The above code does not do anything when requests are sent to my new domain.

Any ideas what is going on?

Nick

[aos101]

You setup www.koufou.net as a website redirect to www.nkoufou.f2s.com, so when someone goes to www.koufou.net their browser gets told to go to www.nkoufou.f2s.com to get the site. So when you send a POST request to www.koufou.net, the POST request goes to the redirection server (server0019.freedom2surf.net) instead of the server with your script and website on (www.nkoufou.f2s.com) and the redirection server just tells the browser to go to www.nkoufou.f2s.com to see your site (and the POST request is no resent to www.nkoufou.f2s.com by the browser).

Basically to do POST requests to the domain you need to have proper hosting for the domain rather than just a redirect to another website. It looks like you can do GET requests to the domain as they are carried forward as part of the URL (e.g. www.koufou.net/abc/?foo=bar does redirect to www.nkoufou.f2s.com/abc/?foo=bar).

Edit: Some Googling turns up this which might be worth a read.

[NKoufou]

Thanks for the comprehensive reply aos101. I will work around the problem with a GET/POST combination.

Cheers
Nick