POST to PHP from Node.js
Since you are sending the data with Content-Type: application/json you would need to read the raw input as php does not know how to read json into their globals like _GET and _POST unless you have some php extension that does it.
You can use the querystring library to parse a object into a name-value pair query string that you could than transmit with Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded so that the data will be parsed into the globals
var data = { var1:"something", var2:"something else"};var querystring = require("querystring");var qs = querystring.stringify(data);var qslength = qs.length;var options = { hostname: "example.com", port: 80, path: "some.php", method: 'POST', headers:{ 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Content-Length': qslength }};var buffer = "";var req = http.request(options, function(res) { res.on('data', function (chunk) { buffer+=chunk; }); res.on('end', function() { console.log(buffer); });});req.write(qs);req.end();