Re: (HELP) Reading a file sent through HTTP
| From: | Jason Brooke | Date: | Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:27:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: (HELP) Reading a file sent through HTTP | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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What request method is it then? I only know of HEAD and PUT other than GET
and POST
make a script that receives their request, and write
getenv("REQUEST_METHOD") to a file and look
I don't think socket functions will help you read it anyway, unless you
replace your httpd with an ever-running, listening php script.
> 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 ;)