Interesting...
But how will the user-agent know how to pack the data?

AFAIK, if you don't specify enctype in the <form> tag, the user-agent will assume application/x-www-form-urlencoded. I'm assuming that if you put in something that's not recognized (like multipart/x-non-parsed-form-data), the user-agent won't know what it is and will again default to application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

So to use the dirty hack suggested by Rasmus in that IRC log, I'd need some way of instructing the user-agent to use multipart/form-data, but then destroy the Content-Type header in the request *before* PHP sees it and snags the body.


Gregory Beaver wrote:
Good news and bad news.  Rasmus reports on IRC:

[21:57] <Rasmus_> We never buffer the data in file upload mode
[21:57] <Rasmus_> it is streamed to disk, so no, you can't get it all in
a variable like that
[21:57] <Rasmus_> set a different content-type if you want to do that
[21:57] <Rasmus_> assuming you have control over the client
[21:58] <CelloG> can you do a file upload without multipart?
[21:59] <Rasmus_> Well, if you want to pick a POST apart yourself, sure
[21:59] <Rasmus_> set a mime type PHP doesn't understand and it will be
in http_raw_post_data and then you can do whatever you want with it

So the answer is "sort of."  You would have to parse the POST data
yourself, but it is technically a possibility.

Regards,
Greg
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