I am trying to send some data in json format with POST to a specific url test.php. The request should be asynchronous , I need to get the http response code if the data is sent or not (I don’t wont to wait until the request is done processed on test.php).
I have built a perl function to send the data
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON qw(encode_json);
use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::HTTP;
=pod
Function send asynchronus data , get response code
=cut
sub sendOutboundPostRequestAsync {
my ($url, $data, $token) = @_;
# Create a condition variable to wait for the asynchronous request
my $request_done = AnyEvent->condvar;
# Convert the data hash to JSON
my $json_data = encode_json($data);
print "JSON data being sent: $json_datan"; # For debugging
# Make the HTTP POST request asynchronously
http_post $url,
headers => {
'Authorization' => $token,
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
},
body => $json_data,
sub {
my ($body, $headers) = @_;
my $status_code = $headers->{Status} // 500; # Default to 500 if no status
# Print the response for debugging
print "Response Body: $bodyn";
print "Request completed with status code: $status_coden";
# Send the status code back through the condition variable
$request_done->send($status_code);
};
return $request_done; # Return the condition variable for further processing
}
#####
my $url = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx/test.php';
my $token = 'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGci';
# Example data to send
my %data = (
uniqueid => '1727331196.gesti',
start_time => '2024-09-26 08:13:17',
);
# Call the function
my $response_code_condvar = sendOutboundPostRequestAsync($url, %data, $token);
my $response_code = $response_code_condvar->recv; # Wait for the request to complete
print "Final Response Code: $response_coden";
The php code (shortened for testing purpose) to get the data
<?php
mysqli_report(MYSQLI_REPORT_ERROR | MYSQLI_REPORT_STRICT);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
ini_set('display_startup_errors', '1');
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Retrieve the raw POST data
$postData = file_get_contents('php://input');
// Log all headers for debugging
$headers = getallheaders();
file_put_contents('postData.txt', "Received Headers:n" . print_r($headers, true) . "n", FILE_APPEND);
// Specify the file path
$file_path = 'postData.txt';
// Open the file for writing (append mode)
$file = fopen($file_path, 'a'); // Use 'w' to overwrite the file
// Write the POST data to the file
fwrite($file, "Received POST data:n" . $postData . "nn");
// Close the file
fclose($file);
// Decode the JSON data
$data = json_decode($postData, true);
// Check if data decoding was successful
if ($data === null) {
// Handle error: Invalid JSON
http_response_code(400);
echo 'Invalid JSON';
exit;
}
// Extract the action from the decoded data
$action = $data['action'] ?? null;
// Check if the action is set
if ($action === null) {
// Handle error: Missing action
http_response_code(400);
echo 'Missing action';
exit;
}
?>
Issue
After executing the Perl script I get
ast1:~ # perl test.agi
JSON data being sent: {"start_time":"2024-09-26 08:13:17","uniqueid":"1727331196.gesti"}
Response Body: Invalid JSON
Request completed with status code: 400
Final Response Code: 400
The data seems correct and it should be sent without issue, but on the PHP side on the text log I get
Received POST data:
headers
Desired output
Received POST data:
{
"start_time": "2024-09-26 08:13:17",
"uniqueid": "1727331196.gesti"
}
Questions
- Is this the best way to send asynchronous data using Perl ?
- What could be the issue of an empty result of data ?
2
Answers
The solution was adding the POST keyword on the following line
http_request POST => $url,
You’re doing
but that doesn’t match the signature in the documentation, which says
That is, the body is the second argument, and isn’t passed as a key-value pair. Since you got the order wrong, it’s interpreting
headers
as the body, and mixing up everything else.So if you want to use
http_post
(rather thanhttp_request
) with your example, it would be