PHP 4.0 Bug #5503: Please allow access to the raw HTTP POST data (not just parsed form variables)

From: ian@clientside.co.uk Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0.0 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Please allow access to the raw HTTP POST data (not just parsed form variables) When IE 5 exports its favorites file (an HTML file) to a server, it sends a raw HTTP POST of the data. i.e. The data isn't packaged into a variable (with the syntax 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"') in the same way as HTML form POSTs are. PHP's HTTP_POST_VARS does a good job of exposing the variables found in HTML form posts. But it doesn't seem to allow access to the raw HTTP POST data (HTTP_POST_VARS contains a brave but corrupted attempt to parse the 'variables'). So I can't get at the submitted IE5 favorites data. I've spent a lot of time researching this, but of course I might be missing something obvious. So I'm sorry if I'm just missing an existing way to do this. If so, could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Ian