PHP not populating $_POST variable if doing a POST using multipart/form-data

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so I make this manual POST request:

Headers

User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: myhost.com
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY
Te: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: close

Request Body:

from=lalala

But then inspecting the $_POST variable from the site reveals that the variable is empty...

If I make it application/x-www-form-urlencoded, though

User-Agent: Fiddler
Host: myhost.com
Content-Length: 11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; boundary=xYzZY
Te: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: close

The $_POST variable would get populated correctly...

Why didn't the $_POST variable get populated when using multipart/form-data? How do I go about making it work using multipart/form-data?

pozs · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-03 16:37:14Z

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Because multipart/form-data is in a totally different format. You supplied the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format in both cases.

answered Dec 3, 2013 at 16:37

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