note 98142 deleted from function.http-get-request-body by sobak

Note Submitter: Tim Trinidad ---- It seems that there is some weird behavior when using http_get_request_body() with fopen('php://input'). Specifically, reading the input with the fopen('php://input') routine before calling http_get_request_body() on a PUT HTTP request. Here are some examples: A POST request: ********************************************************* PUT http://example.com/requestbodytest.php HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 58 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <body>test</body> ********************************************************* with the following script: ********************************************************* <?php $body = ''; $fh = @fopen('php://input', 'r'); if ($fh) { while (!feof($fh)) { $s = fread($fh, 1024); if (is_string($s)) { $body .= $s; } } fclose($fh); } print("-------------- PHP Input Stream ----------------\n$body\n\n"); $body2 = http_get_request_body(); print("---------- http_get_request_body() -------------\n$body2\n\n"); ?> ********************************************************* outputs this: ********************************************************* -------------- PHP Input Stream ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <body>test</body> ---------- http_get_request_body() ------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <body>test</body> ********************************************************* The same request to the same script using an HTTP PUT request, however, outputs this: ********************************************************* -------------- PHP Input Stream ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <body>test</body> ---------- http_get_request_body() ------------- ********************************************************* It seems a valid workaround is to put a call to http_get_request_body() to cache the body content before an expected read to php://input (i.e. simply calling the function without manually storing the result caches the content for subsequent calls).