Receive JSON POST Data - Revision history

Michael.mast: /* Final Config */

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Final Config

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PHP Script

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Testing

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Purpose

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Process

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Testing

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Process

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Process

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Process

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 ==Final Config==
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 yum install httpd php python2-certbot-apache

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 fwrite($forwriting, $data);
 fclose($forwriting);
 ?>
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 curl --user test:test -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"test":"1"}' http://localhost
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 file_put_contents($myFile,$data);
 ?>
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 curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"test":"1"}' http://localhost
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-Again, but with a username/password
+Again, but with a username/password<ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3044315/how-to-set-the-authorization-header-using-curl</ref>
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 curl --user test:test -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"test":"1"}' http://localhost
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 ==Purpose==
-Request came across my desk for a web server to receive JSON POST data, providing web hooks for a business analyst to parse. On my end things were simple enough.
+Request came across my desk for a web server to receive JSON POST data, providing web hooks for another system to parse. On my end things were simple enough.
 #Simple Apache server to receive requests.
 #Basic Authentication
 #Save the POST data to file (For now, but I feel this will be expanded in the near future)
 ==Process==
 ===Apache Config===

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 #Save the POST data to file (For now, but I feel this will be expanded in the near future)
 ==Process==
 <ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16931804/recording-a-json-post-to-file-using-php</ref><ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18866571/receive-json-post-with-php</ref>This example will echo the posted data back to the client during testing, as well as save the file to disk.
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 ?>
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 ==Testing==
 Used the following POST method with curl to test with.

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 $myFile = "testFile_$today.txt";
 $data = file_get_contents('php://input');
 file_put_contents($myFile,$data);
 ?>
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← Older revision		Revision as of 15:17, 26 July 2018
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	To further build on this, and to keep track of the received hooks, I wanted to add a date/time stamp to the file<ref>http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php</ref>.		To further build on this, and to keep track of the received hooks, I wanted to add a date/time stamp to the file<ref>http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php</ref>.
		+	<pre>
		+	<?php
		+	$today = date("mdY_His");
		+	$myFile = "testFile_$today.txt";
		+	$data = file_get_contents('php://input');
		+	echo $data;
		+	file_put_contents($myFile,$data);
		+	echo date("Y");
		+	?>
		+	</pre>