Re: POST Data

Look at $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Jason wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________________ > Site Design, Hosting, and E-Commerce at www.webpipe.net > >