note 112509 added to function.http-get-request-body

@slave at codegrunt dot com If you leave out Content-Length and have no Transfer-Encoding, your request is no longer valid. RFC261 says at chapter 4.3: "The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in the request's message-headers." Without those headers, the server has no way of figuring out what the length of the body is. For a response, you could indicate it with a connection close, but obviously if you do that on a request you will never get a response! So, I assume the PhP behaviour you describe is OK as you cannot expect it to auto-magically repair all sorts of broken requests! @Tim Trinidad Reading php://input or using http_get_request_body_stream() must be very similar. The documentation says: "This function can not be used after http_get_request_body_stream() if the request method was another than POST." So it looks very similar to what you describe. The documentation should then read: "This function can not be used after http_get_request_body_stream() or reading php://input, if the request method was another than POST." ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 82.230.150.153 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.http-get-request-body.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/112509 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/112509 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/112509 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php