note 30485 added to language.variables.external

For what I understand, since PHP 4.3 it is possible to access the content of a POST request (or other methods as well) as an input stream named php://input, example: readfile("php://input"); [to display it] or $fp = fopen("php://input", "r"); [to open it and then do whatever you want] This is very useful to access the content of POST requests which actually have a content (and not just variable-value couples, which appear in $_POST). This substitutes the old $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable available in some of the previous 4.x versions. It is available for other upload methods different from POST too, but it is not available for POSTs with multipart/form-data content type, since the file upload handler has already taken care of the content in that case. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+30485 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+30485 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+30485