raw POST data

[Roy Starkey]

Is there a way to access the raw data sent to a PHP app via POST? I'm
trying to read the XML sent by a Flash program with XML.send() and its sent
via POST but not URL encoded. PHP is expecting URL encoding so it comes in
like:

$_POST['<?xml version'] = '"1.0"?>'

Perl can read it just fine like so:

read (STDIN, $rawpost, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
s/\&amp;/\&/g;

But since I'm a PHP kind of guy I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in
PHP.

[Andy Hassall]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:57:35 GMT, "Roy Starkey" <rs******@austin.rr.com> wrote:

Is there a way to access the raw data sent to a PHP app via POST? I'm
trying to read the XML sent by a Flash program with XML.send() and its sent
via POST but not URL encoded. PHP is expecting URL encoding so it comes in
like:

$_POST['<?xml version'] = '"1.0"?>'

Perl can read it just fine like so:

read (STDIN, $rawpost, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
s/\&amp;/\&/g;

But since I'm a PHP kind of guy I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in
PHP.

Try the poorly documented $GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'] variable and the
always_populate_raw_post_data configuration directive in php.ini

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