Re: Reading STDIN on POST queries?

> Use the constants describe in http://php.net/fopen > Or... Hmm, maybe you are asking about $REQUEST_URI?... > Look at the output from <?php phpinfo();?> and see if the data you want is > there. Alas, this doesn't seem to work. The problem, best I can tell, is that PHP is parsing STDIN (ie, where Apache sends the data from the POST connection) before parsing and running the PHP script. The POST data isn't part of the URI (that'd be GET), and phpinfo() doesn't seem to report what raw data might have existed on STDIN. Ethereal (network sniffer) shows that the data is indeed being sent to Apache. Writing a quick perl script that reads STDIN shows that the data is being sent to the execed CGI process properly. Within the PHP script, a call to fopen with either /dev/stdin or php://stdin succeeds, and feof() returns false (meaning not at end of file yet; or more precisely, that the pointer into the file's buffer hasn't attempted to read past the end of the file). fread at this point returns nothing, and feof() will then return true (ie, eof reached). Still scratching my head... ?? best, Jeff > > Is there a way to read STDIN directly (ie, without > > having PHP 4.0.4 parsing it for encoded > > variable/value pairs) in a cgi-based install of > > PHP?