POST request not working

Question

Hi, today the POST request **/teams/search?sport_id=3&country=France** is not working (using CURL in PHP).

I don't understand why the response is a HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request.

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Trying 3.226.33.234:443...
* Connected to sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com (3.226.33.234) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=*.p.rapidapi.com
*  start date: Jul  6 00:00:00 2022 GMT
*  expire date: Aug  4 23:59:59 2023 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com" matched cert's "*.p.rapidapi.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Amazon; OU=Server CA 1B; CN=Amazon
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> POST /teams/search?sport_id=3&country=France HTTP/1.1
Host: sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br
X-RapidAPI-Host: sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com
X-RapidAPI-Key: ****

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:10:53 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-RateLimit-Requests-Limit: 500
< X-RateLimit-Requests-Remaining: 301
< X-RateLimit-Requests-Reset: 187629
< Server: RapidAPI-1.2.8
< X-RapidAPI-Version: 1.2.8
< X-RapidAPI-Region: AWS - us-east-1
< 
* Connection #0 to host sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com left intact
string(0) ""

Tipsters CO · Answer

ok!

cedk · Answer

OK I found the problem.

The example code is incorrect, the post data must be passed as a query string in the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS field, not in the enpoint URL as suggested.

```php
 3,
	'country' => 'France'
];

$post_data = http_build_query($data);

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
	CURLOPT_URL => "https://sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com/players/search",
	CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
	CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
	CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
	CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
	CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
	CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
	CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
	CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
		"X-RapidAPI-Host: sportscore1.p.rapidapi.com",
		"X-RapidAPI-Key: ***"
	],
	CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post_data
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
$info = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

var_dump('info', $info);
var_dump('response', $response);
var_dump('err', $err);

curl_close($curl);

```

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POST request not working