diff --git a/www-api/app/Controllers/BaseController.php b/www-api/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
index b8ab1bb5..75a0bd37 100644
--- a/www-api/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
+++ b/www-api/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
@@ -385,9 +385,9 @@ abstract class BaseController extends Controller
                 $params2 = trim($params2, '&');
               //  $url = $url.'?'.$params2;// add param to URL
                 log_message('critical', "API URL FINAL =>".$url );
-                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
-                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
-                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
+                //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, true);
+                //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+                curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
                 break;
             case "POST":
                 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);