Re: Reading STDIN on POST queries?

well, why don't you use Perl for this task then? not everything must be done with a single tool. At 00:24 5.1. 2001, Jeff P wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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? > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz