Req #41191 [Opn->Csd]: Request for method to always retrieve POST body

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41191&edit=1 ID: 41191 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported by: jfrim at idirect dot com Summary: Request for method to always retrieve POST body -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: HTTP related Operating System: Win98 PHP Version: 5.2.1 -Assigned To: +Assigned To: rasmus Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This was actually addressed in PHP 5.4 with the "enable_post_data_reading" ini switch. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-07 09:10:45] jfrim at idirect dot com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost 5 years later, and this still hasn't been resolved!?? Normally I'd be civil about this, but really, Really, REALLY, what's going on in the PHP development world? This is pathetic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-07 09:02:04] peter dot e dot lind at gmail dot com This is still quite a bother: When you send a POST request of type multipart/form-data, the POST data is parsed no matter what and you have no chance to check the request body. If the POST request is invalid somehow (for instance, if the boundary is set wrong) the parser throws away the entire request body leaving you in the dark as to why there's no data coming through. Essentially, you are left with "The request is invalid somehow, but I have no clue as to why" - and if you cannot reproduce the error yourself, you're completely screwed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-01-18 11:01:06] novikov at doroga dot tv When the Java MIDP client sends wrong multipart/form-data message because of wrong Java implementation, I don't have a chance to fix the problem on the server side using PHP, just because I don't have any way to get a raw POST data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-25 20:12:36] jfrim at idirect dot com Description: ------------ Currently there exists no way in PHP to retrieve the POST body when a form is sent using multipart/form-data. This is a problem for implementing protocols like HTTP digest authentication, which require the server to calculate a hash of the received POST body. If making the POST body available on the php://input stream AT ALL TIMES regardless of the encoding type is impractical (possibly due to memory requirements when the POST body is very large), an alternative would be to stream the POST body, unaltered, directly to a temporary file. (Similar to the way files uploaded with HTML forms are streamed to temporary files referenced in the $_FILES[] superglobal.) This would allow authors to fully implement HTTP digest authentication in their scripts, and open up any other other possible situations where one might require an exact bit-accurate copy of the POST body. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41191&edit=1