Which method is use to send messages?

[Ham3D]

Hello
i recently had a bug , i suppose this sdk use Get method to send text messaged to telegram api, right ?
when i try to send a big message a message pops up about :
{"\r\n<title>414_Request-URI_Too_Large</title></head>\r\n<body_bgcolor":""white">\r\n

414 Request-URI Too Large</h1></center>\r\n

---

nginx/1.6.2</center>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>\r\n"}
is there a way to use Post instead of Get ?

[jonnywilliamson]

Good point. I wondered about this a few months ago.

@irazasyed - any reason why we use GET requests instead of POST requests when connecting to the telegram server?

I had a look and try to change the normal GET to POST in the code, but I wasn't sure how to set the parameters to application/x-www-form-urlencoded so I wasn't successful.

[jonnywilliamson]

Actually I just worked it out.

If we change the $this->get to a $this->post in any of the send methods on the API, we have to add a form_params to the parameters.

This could be refactored, but a quick hack at the moment would look like this:

// Api.php

    /**
     * Send text messages.
     *
     * @link https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#sendmessage
     *
     * @param int    $chat_id
     * @param string $text
     * @param bool   $disable_web_page_preview
     * @param int    $reply_to_message_id
     * @param string $reply_markup
     *
     * @return Message
     */
    public function sendMessage(
        $chat_id,
        $text,
        $disable_web_page_preview = false,
        $reply_to_message_id = null,
        $reply_markup = null
    ) {
        $params = compact('chat_id', 'text', 'disable_web_page_preview', 'reply_to_message_id', 'reply_markup');
        $response = $this->post('sendMessage', ['form_params' => $params]);

        return new Message($response->getDecodedBody());
    }

[Ham3D]

it seems working , send a Pr

[irazasyed]

Please open a new PR and I can merge it. I won't be able to work on this until this month end. So either someone send a PR or please wait. Thanks!!

[jonnywilliamson]

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