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Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data [message #178939] Sun, 26 August 2012 19:43 Go to next message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Stefan Weiss wrote:

> On 2012-08-26 19:15, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Christoph Becker wrote:
>>> So for POST requests, when the Content-Type is text/plain (e.g. by using
>>> <form enctype="text/plain">) even non-ASCII characters in the body can
>>> be sent directly. But not all server side "languages" will handle this
>>> (e.g. PHP will not fill in the $_POST variable).
>> PHP is not supposed to fill the $_POST array then; there are no
>> parameters. Indeed, apparently there is no trivial way, if any, to
>> retrieve the message body with PHP then [...]
>
> file_get_contents("php://input")

Thanks, unfortunately it requires allow_url_fopen=1.

> or any other function capable of reading from streams.

Could you provide an example, please?


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Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data [message #178940 is a reply to message #178939] Sun, 26 August 2012 20:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christoph Becker is currently offline  Christoph Becker
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>
>> On 2012-08-26 19:15, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Christoph Becker wrote:
>>>> So for POST requests, when the Content-Type is text/plain (e.g. by using
>>>> <form enctype="text/plain">) even non-ASCII characters in the body can
>>>> be sent directly. But not all server side "languages" will handle this
>>>> (e.g. PHP will not fill in the $_POST variable).
>>> PHP is not supposed to fill the $_POST array then; there are no
>>> parameters. Indeed, apparently there is no trivial way, if any, to
>>> retrieve the message body with PHP then [...]
>>
>> file_get_contents("php://input")
>
> Thanks, unfortunately it requires allow_url_fopen=1.

I've just found $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httprawpostdata.php>,
which seems to be a viable alternative for Content-Type "text/plain", if
allow_url_fopen=0.

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Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data [message #178971 is a reply to message #178940] Tue, 28 August 2012 13:50 Go to previous message
Thomas 'PointedEars'  is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Christoph Becker wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Stefan Weiss wrote:
>>> On 2012-08-26 19:15, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>> Christoph Becker wrote:
>>>> > So for POST requests, when the Content-Type is text/plain (e.g. by
>>>> > using <form enctype="text/plain">) even non-ASCII characters in the
>>>> > body can be sent directly. But not all server side "languages" will
>>>> > handle this (e.g. PHP will not fill in the $_POST variable).
>>>> PHP is not supposed to fill the $_POST array then; there are no
>>>> parameters. Indeed, apparently there is no trivial way, if any, to
>>>> retrieve the message body with PHP then [...]
>>> file_get_contents("php://input")
>> Thanks, unfortunately it requires allow_url_fopen=1.
>
> I've just found $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
> <http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.httprawpostdata.php>,
> which seems to be a viable alternative for Content-Type "text/plain", if
> allow_url_fopen=0.

Thank you, WFM.


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