Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2012-08-26 21:43 +0200
Subject	Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.php
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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 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-26 21:43 +0200
  Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-08-26 22:06 +0200
    Re: XMLHttpRequest: POST with Data Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-28 15:50 +0200

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