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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] raw post data
From: hartmut@php.net (Hartmut Holzgraefe)

Doru Petrescu wrote:
> I don't think this will help either as PHP always read the entire
> content-length BEFORE even loading the actual php script. As long as you
> using php as a web server module you cannot escape this.

this is true if either RAW_POST_DATA is populated or a post
handler for the mime type of the POST request is activated,
for POST requests that come with a mime type we have no handler
registered for i am not sure right now ...

> if you need to run something while the data is received we need to
> change the way php works. the way I see things is to put hook in the 
> function that read the data from the client. This will allow execution
> of code while post data is received.

i already did (in a way) by introducing the php://input stream in
PHP 4.3.0, although it actually is more about PUT than POST ...

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Hartmut Holzgraefe  <hartmut@php.net>