Re: how to extract the "body" of a HTTP_Request2 request?

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alexey Borzov wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 04.03.2010 2:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want > > to create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as > > uploaded content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i > > can see: > > > > /** > > * Sets the request body > > * > > * @param string Either a string with the body or filename> > containing > > body > > * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename > > * @return HTTP_Request2 > > * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception > > */ > > public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) > > ... snip ... > > > > > > fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote > > PHP file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is > > just a trivial POST issue. i can examine > > $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see the *length* of the body, but i > > don't know what variable to use to get the content itself. help? > > Please clarify: are you going to send a custom POST body (as in > XML-RPC or SOAP) or emulate POST file upload? > > In the former case you access the body via php://input stream, in > the latter case you need addUpload() rather than setBody() and just > access the $_FILES array as usual. given that i don't know a whole lot (read: nothing) about custom POST bodies, here's what i'm after. i want to put together a POST request with which i can upload one or more POST parameters, plus an arbitrary amount of content. i can't use the file upload feature since i may not have a filename to go with the data, i'm just going to be handed that content. i know i can use addPostParameter() to pass those POST parameters, and i can extract them at the other end by referring to $_POST. that part's easy. but i don't see how to extend that to *additionally* passing that single large chunk of content. i suspect i could just make that another POST parameter whose value would be a massively long stream of bytes. is there anything untoward about that? or is there a better (more approved) way of doing what i'm after? can i combine adding POST parameters with setting the body? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================