POST without Content-Type?

All, I've been coding a PHP page that listens for a connection from an embedded device (a piece of hardware) that sends a POST query to Apache (and to my PHP pages...). I've having a problem that I can't seem to solve. The embedded application does not set a Content-Type header on the POST, so PHP fails with the following error: -- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:26:14 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/4.0.2 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html <br> <b>Fatal error</b>: No content-type in POST request in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br> Connection closed by foreign host. -- The connection that the embedded system makes looks like this: -- POST http://host.mysite.foo/dir/phppage HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: ImEmbedded Host: host.mysite.foo Content-Length: 123 Pragma: no-cache Cookie: embeddedsession=myverylongsessionvariablegeneratedbythehardware <?xml version="1.0"?> -- And below is some XML stuff... I've tried setting 'Content-Type' in $HTTP_POST_VARS, using mod_rewrite in Apache to change the content-type (with the -T flag) and looked at all the options in php.ini. I'm using PHP 4.0.2 w/Apache 1.3.12 (if you couldn't tell from the sig above...) Nothing works correctly. The mod_rewrite trick would work, but it makes everthing to that URL text/xml, including the PHP script, which no longer executes. I look on the mailing lists here and on usenet, but I don't see a good solution... Anyone have any ideas? At this point, I'm thinking of re-writing my code in Perl or Python since there seems to be no solution to this problem. Note that it's PHP that rejects the request, not Apache. I don't see why a missing content-type should do this. It should just default to text/plain or something. Anyway, thanks for any help. Chris. -- chris maresca internet systems architect -- www.chrismaresca.com "linux, only up 138 days, because california has flaky power... "