Re: POST Data

I have no idea, but perhaps serialize/unserialize or urlencode/urldecode may contain clues. All I can think of right now... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason <jasonc@webpipe.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:22 AM Subject: [PHP] POST Data > I'm asking this question on behalf of someone else and am quite ignorant to > what he's talking about. Does anyone have a clue? > > ---snip--- > The data in HTML form POSTs is packaged into name value pairs. But when > IE 5 exports its favorites file to a server (an HTML file), it sends a > raw HTTP POST of the data (there are no names and values, just a raw > text stream). > > PHP's HTTP_POST_VARS does a good job of exposing the variables found in > HTML form posts. But it doesn't allow access to the raw HTTP > POST data (HTTP_POST_VARS contains a brave but corrupted attempt to > parse the 'variables'). > > Perl CGI stdin has a similar problem to PHP. But someone did an > experiment for me and found that mod_perl's read command works > perfectly. > ---snip--- > > jason > > > _______________________________________________________ > Site Design, Hosting, and E-Commerce at www.webpipe.net > > -- > 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 >