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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RE : Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] Add option to disable POST
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From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:10:30 -0000, Clint Byrum <clint@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 01:11 +0000, Gustavo Lopes wrote:
>>
>> For instance, current scripts can, in POST requests, read any number of
>> times from php://input or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA (to simplify, let's say we
>> even let go $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA).  For this to be possible, you would  
>> have to have the data in memory because you're reading from php://input  
>> the
>> first time, you can't know if it will be read a second time, so you  
>> either break BC or keep everything in memory just in case there's a  
>> second read
>> -- and then you're where you started.
>>
>
> This example would be solved if during the lazy load you change the
> php://input stream to point at the memory location that you read it
> into.
>

I'm sorry, this doesn't make any sense. "The memory location you read  
into"? Who says you read the post data *into* something, much less a  
memory location?


-- 
Gustavo Lopes