Form sends GET instead of POST

Question

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I have a website running on apache2. I need to submit sensitive information through a

Answer 1

If like me you gone from Routed url (like in Laravel) to plain PHP, and wonder why the file /user/store/index.php responds that it receives a GET request using:

<form method="POST" action="/user/store">
  <input type="text" id="user_name" name="user_name" />
  <button type="submit">Create a new user</button>
</form>

Just check it again... Yes you forgot a trailing slash... so /user/store will receives only get, while /user/store/ will receive what you form requested.

Edit

I inspected what Laravel does, and it solves this particular issue with this addition in their .htaccess (check the original file).

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

Answer 2

One way to solve this is to reinforce your intentions by expliciting formmethod="post", like this:

<button type="submit" formmethod="post" formaction="add_user.php">Submit</button>