Re: (HELP) Reading a file sent through HTTP

Sorry to clarify, the server environment does report it coming in as a POST but there is no variable name, its just a binary file ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Fabian Raygosa" <fabian@getacard.com> Cc: "Php-General@Lists. Php. Net" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] (HELP) Reading a file sent through HTTP > Uh, if it is not a POST or a GET, what is it? There must be some HTTP > primitive or it isn't HTTP at all. > > -Rasmus > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Fabian Raygosa wrote: > > > A site is trying to send our website a xml file. Unfortunately it is not > > being sent through POST or GET. Using tools that the other site gives me to > > test my site i > > have determined only the file size through server vars CONTENT_LENGTH and > > CONTENT_TYPE which is text/xml. But thats it. I am stuck on how to read the > > file. > > > > Some perl examples i have seen use this function: > > read (STDIN, $request, $length); > > php has that but right now our production servers won't have those socket > > functions available till a few days time so rightnow i am left alone. I am > > desperate for help. Does anyone have any suggestions with or without using > > socket functions on how to read this incoming file??? > > Thanks in advance ;) > > > > > > -- > > 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 > >