Vscode-restclient: Losing POSTed vars when calling a PHP endpoint

[lcarbonaro]

VS Code:
Version: 1.28.2 (system setup)
Commit: 7f3ce96ff4729c91352ae6def877e59c561f4850
Date: 2018-10-17T00:23:51.859Z
Electron: 2.0.9
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
Architecture: x64

OS:
Windows 7 Enterprise SP 1

RESTClient version 0.20.2

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I have this request in RESTClient:

POST https://example.com/backend/saveData.php 
content-type:  application/json 

{
    "id": "123",    
    "firstname": "test",
    "lastname"  : "testing",
}

In saveData.php I have:

<?php
$idNum = filter_input( INPUT_POST, 'id' );
$firstName = filter_input( INPUT_POST, 'firstname' );
$lastName  = filter_input( INPUT_POST, 'lastname' );

$rv= '{"id":"'.$idNum.'","fn":"'.$firstName.'","ln":"'.$lastName.'"}';
echo($rv);

exit();

When I send the request via RESTClient, none of the POSTed parms are making it to the PHP code.

Getting back this response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:29:42 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.12
Content-Length: 25
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

{
  "id": "",
  "fn": "",
  "ln": ""
}

Not sure if this is a known issue already.

[Huachao]

@lcarbonaro I am not familiar with PHP, however in my test, the request sent out by my extension is right IMHO, and you can verify this by sending following request in my extension:

POST http://httpbin.org/post
content-type:  application/json 

{
    "id": "123",    
    "firstname": "test",
    "lastname"  : "testing",
}

[rafaltra]

@lcarbonaro are you looking into post parameters are url form data instead of json content? The request below should work with your PHP.
`POST https://example.com/backend/saveData.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

id=123&firstname=test&lastname=testing`

[lcarbonaro]

Thanks @Huachao and @rafaltra for your responses. @rafaltra your suggestion worked - thank you.

[ChenghaoZHU]

@lcarbonaro are you looking into post parameters are url form data instead of json content? The request below should work with your PHP.
`POST https://example.com/backend/saveData.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

id=123&firstname=test&lastname=testing`

Solved my problem, thank you.