Why doesn't the script see $_REQUEST?

Question

PHP

I use this mod_rewrite in .htaccess:
RewriteRule upload/([a-z]+)$ api.php?format=$1
Next, in the file I catch two variables $_REQUEST['data'] and $_REQUEST['format'], when accessing /upload/txt?data=1, in var_dump($_REQUEST) it is clear that variable $_REQUEST['data'] is not defined.

Answer 1

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