PHP 4.0 Bug #8116: HTTP_POST-Data not accessible when no variable-name specified

From: t.rogall@jensen-stuart.de Operating system: Windows NT / IIS 4 PHP version: 4.0.3pl1 PHP Bug Type: HTTP related Bug description: HTTP_POST-Data not accessible when no variable-name specified I'm working on an XML-Project. My PHP-Script is called by another script on another server. It is sending a complete XML-File using the HTTP-POST-method. For some reason it is sending *only* the XML-File, and *not* pairs of 'key and value'. So for example the posted data is just '<xmldata>...</xmldata>' and not 'xml_file=<xmldata>...</xmldata>'. It appears to me, that PHP tries to parse the data, but since it doesn't find any equals-signs ('=') in the data, it cannot divide the data into 'keys and values'. The problem is that I cannot access the posted data at all. The $HTTP_POST_VARIABLES-array is set, but it is empty. The REQUEST_METHOD and CONTENT_LENGTH variables are correctly set (f.e POST and 2134). If by accident somewhere in the data would appear a '=', then PHP interpretes the former part as the variable-name (with spaces converted to underscores!), and the latter as the variable-value. This could also become a problem, because a '=' or a '&' *could* be part of the data. How can I access the posted data directly? This is quite urgent to me. -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8116&edit=1