C# - Json POST request sent but not received by PHP server

Question

I am sending a HTTP request from a C# windowsform application to PHP server hosted on OpenShift (Redhat). I am using the method POST, with Json data.

The problem is that

Answer 1

PHP's $_POST does not understand JSON.

What you want is something along the lines of

// Error handling is left as an exercise
$input = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);

You should then be able to use $input the way you seem to want to use $_POST. See json_decode for additional knobs to twiddle.