Parsing PUT data

Hi All,

Firstly, let me know if this is particularly spammy/inappropriate for this
list.

I just wanted to get some feedback on a long-time feature request (2011)
about treating PUT the same as POST in terms of re-using the existing form
parser. See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55815 for details.

Normally, I wouldn't have posted this to internals, but as you can see,
there's been no movement on this for a long time.

In short, in order to provide a proper REST service that supports multipart
form data, we need someway to parse data sent via PUT (data is available
via php://input, but it needs to be parsed).
Could be as simple as adding $_PUT / $_FILES for PUT data.

Perhaps it might be a better idea to expose the multipart parser as a
function, so that you can bind the decoded body to either an object or
array. The trick is to keep is_uploaded_file(), etc. working, though.

What's the best way to move this forward?
Do I need to create a patch/RFC? Or is this something someone can just pick
up?

Thanks,
Dave

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Tjerk