#25938 [Opn->Bgs]: Get the entire POST data

ID: 25938 Updated by: dave@php.net Reported By: nskate at chez dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: * PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-10-21 (dev) New Comment: This is bogus, as sniper has said, $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and php://input exist for this purpose. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-21 15:52:15] sniper@php.net $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and preferred: php://stdin already exist for this. A comment from http://www.php.net/variables.external: "For what I understand, since PHP 4.3 it is possible to access the content of a POST request (or other methods as well) as an input stream named php://input, example: readfile("php://input"); [to display it] or $fp = fopen("php://input", "r"); [to open it and then do whatever you want] This is very useful to access the content of POST requests which actually have a content (and not just variable-value couples, which appear in $_POST). This substitutes the old $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable available in some of the previous 4.x versions. It is available for other upload methods different from POST too, but it is not available for POSTs with multipart/form-data content type, since the file upload handler has already taken care of the content in that case." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-21 12:25:04] nskate at chez dot com Description: ------------ This whould be great if we could see all data sent by POST method in a var like $_SERVER['CONTENT_DATA']. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25938&edit=1