4 March 2015

Sending data using POST to external url should be done by using drupal_http_request.

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  1. $url = 'http://browse-tutorials.com/json';
  2. $post_request = drupal_http_request($url, array(
  3.   'method' => 'POST',
  4.   'headers' => array('Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'),
  5.   'data' => http_build_query(array(
  6.     'name' => 'POST data',
  7.     'description' => ' To external url in Drupal 7.',
  8.   )),
  9. ));
  10.  
  11. // Decode json data if requested data is json.
  12. $result = drupal_json_decode($post_request->data));
Programming Language: PHP