From: php at bitrockers dot de
Operating system: Linux Debian Etch
PHP version: 5.2.2
PHP Bug Type: HTTP related
Bug description: $_POST not filled, altough raw POST is available
Description:
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Maybe this bug is related to Bugs 31417 and 41293. But I'm not sure,
because this bug occurs in 5.2.0 and 5.2.2.
The problem is:
When sending POST requests via the XmlHttpRequest active-x, on some IE6
installations this won't work properly. The POST request is successfully
sent to our webserver, and the raw http post data is filled correctly, but
the $_POST array is not filled with any information.
I can only guess that the error has something to do with some special
headers/encoding (Content-Length?) which is done by the
XmlHttpRequest-ActiveX on some IE6 installations.
And: Yes, I know that it's hard to find the reason for this behaviour. And
it's not easy to reproduce this bug ( because on most IE6 installations
everything works fine).
But I guess it's worth to take a look at the php-source, so that someone
may get an idea which could cause this bug.
I'm trying to help you as much as possible. Unfortunately I cannot
reproduce the error by myself, so I have to ask the affected customers
each time we 'possibly' fixed the bug.
There must be a bug in php, because the raw-http request is filled
correctly (and we don't touch the $_POST var anywhere else in our code).
Reproduce code:
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var_export($_POST);
$rawPost = file_get_contents('php://input');
echo "\n$rawPost";
Expected result:
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array('postVar1' => 'postValue1',
'postVar2' => 'postValue2')
postVar1=postValue1&postVar2=postValue2
Actual result:
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array()
postVar1=postValue1&postVar2=postValue2
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41349&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41349&r=mysqlcfg
