Re: HTTP_FDF_DATA do we really need it??

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Uwe Steinmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:09:52AM +0200, Thies C. Arntzen wrote: > > hi uwe, > > > > just fixed a "HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA" issue - and grepped thru all sources for > > "HTTP_FDF_DATA" - it seems to me it's never actually used (exept in > > post.c). > > > > can't the FDF stuff just live from "HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA" - i think that > > would be a cleaner solution. i think for now we could/should just get rid of that "hack" - and write a note in the docs/CHangeLog that one should use HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA instead of HTTP_FDF_DATA. (that would work with PHP3 and PHP4) any objections on that? tc > Just thought about an even cleaner solution, but it requires some more > work. Since FDF is acutally just another way of formating form data, it > migth be cool to parse it as it is done with regular html form data > and just provide a number of php variables. I'm just not sure if this > is always a good solution since fdf data is more then a bunch name/value > pairs (if I understand fdf properly). > > Uwe > -- > Uwe.Steinmann@fernuni-hagen.de > Tel: +2331 987 4528 Fax: +2331 987 375 > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany