Bug #74512 [Opn->Csd]: file_get_contents fails on zlib compressed stream

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74512&edit=1 ID: 74512 User updated by: wellu at wellu dot org Reported by: wellu at wellu dot org Summary: file_get_contents fails on zlib compressed stream -Status: Open +Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Filesystem function related Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS PHP Version: 7.0.18 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Ok, sorted this one out. Apparently in 5.6 you can't use file_get_contents anymore like in the past. https://secure.phabricator.com/rP42566379dc3c4fd01a73067215da4a7ca18f9c17 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2017-04-28 18:57:20] wellu at wellu dot org Description: ------------ Exact PHP version: PHP 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 (this was not selectable in dropdown?) I'm posting raw JSON data to a webserver that is gzipped. Server code is: $input_data = json_decode(trim(file_get_contents("compress.zlib://php://input")), true); which should read whatever is posted, then deflate it and then turn it in to an object. This exact code used to work in Ubuntu 14.04 which had PHP 5.x something but now I'm getting: ERROR - 2017-04-28 13:41:42 --> Severity: Warning --> file_get_contents(compress.zlib://php://input): failed to open stream: operation failed /srv/www/xxx/xxx.php 51 ERROR - 2017-04-28 13:42:19 --> Severity: Warning --> file_get_contents(): cannot represent a stream of type Input as a File Descriptor which points to the line in the beginning of this bug report. Nothing changed in the client but upgrading from 5.x to 7.x broke this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74512&edit=1