Handling http post with php

We're posting data through http post to our customers. One of our customers want this integration working with php, but they are unable to receive the post.

The connection is not a form-type connection with several parameters (like fields from an html form), but rather a stream where the data is contained in the actual body of the request.

In Java, we read this body like this:

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BufferedReader br = req.getReader(); //req is the incoming HttpServletRequest
String inputLine;
StringBuffer strBuffMessage = new StringBuffer();

while ((inputLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
    strBuffMessage.append(inputLine);
} // while

br.close();

We don't read any parameters; just the connection body itself.

Can this be solved with php as well?

Regards
Marius Waldal

It seems we solved it in a very simple way! The actual body of the post is contained in

$GLOBALS["HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA"];

This variable contains the XML we sent through the connection, so by only getting the contents here, we accomplish what we wanted.

Marius Waldal

I'm glad you sorted it out! I actually put off answering this thread until this morning thinking it would be a real brainteaser!