POST Data
| From: | Jason | Date: | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:45:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | POST Data | ||
| Groups: | php.dev | ||
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I realize you guys get too much mail to this list already, but nobody seems
to know much about this. Do you guys have any ideas?
Jason
> I'm asking this question on behalf of someone else and am quite
> ignorant to what he's talking about. Does anyone have a clue?
>
> ---snip---
> The data in HTML form POSTs is packaged into name value pairs. But when
> IE 5 exports its favorites file to a server (an HTML file), it sends a
> raw HTTP POST of the data (there are no names and values, just a raw
> text stream).
>
> PHP's HTTP_POST_VARS does a good job of exposing the variables found in
> HTML form posts. But it doesn't allow access to the raw HTTP
> POST data (HTTP_POST_VARS contains a brave but corrupted attempt to
> parse the 'variables').
>
> Perl CGI stdin has a similar problem to PHP. But someone did an
> experiment for me and found that mod_perl's read command works
> perfectly.
> ---snip---
>
> jason
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