php://input hangs the browser

[rocksolidhq]

Good morning,

 

  i am going to be receiving a stream of data via HTTP POST from a vendor and will need to be able to parse out the data.  The format of the data is unknown to me at the moment and may change as we are both coding at the same time.  I cannot initiate the sending of data without calling and having someone there make it happen which would be very time consuming during the development and testing of my code. 

 

  I thought it would be simple to just have them send me a snippet of the stream periodically and build a simple form into which i could paste the snippet and have it sent to my code but apparently i'm missing something.

 

  I need to be able to get the whole post so i have been trying to use php://input but everything i try just results in the browser timing out.  I have tried several examples that i have found online but they all result in a timeout.  I read somewhere that the content-length needs to be set so i've tried doing that to no avail.  I have also read that this may be a bug in PHP.  i am running 5.0.27-community-nt.  Should i be upgrading?

 

  Here are a couple of my attempts.  It's a bit messy as i'm flailing but hopefully it is clear enough.  Can someone please give me a bit of direction?

 

thanks,

dean

 

ATTEMPT #1

<?php

 

function firstRun()

{

    if (!isset($_POST['submit']))

      return true;

  }

 

function secondRun()

{

 

//$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

 

$fp = fopen('php://input','r');

while (!feof($fp))

echo fgets($fp);

fclose($fp);

 

print $data;

print "see it:<br />";

print $_POST['dataSnippet'];

print strlen($_POST['dataSnippet']);

print $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA;

 

}

 

 

function snippetForm()

{

?>

 

  <form id="datasnippet" method="post" action="terminal_DataPost.php" content-type="UTF197/TCS" content-length="4">

  <table align="center">

    <tr>

      <td>

        Data Snippet:

      </td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td>

        <textarea cols="25" rows="3" name="dataSnippet"></textarea>

      </td>

    <tr>

      <td></td>

      <td>

        <input type="hidden" name="submit" value="1" />

        <input type="submit" name="submitButton" value="Submit" />

      </td>

    </tr>

    </table> </form><br />

 

<?php

}

?>

 

ATTEMPT #2

<form action="index2.php" method="post">

<p>

  <label for="text">Zone de texte :</label>

  <input type="text" name="text" id="text" />

  </p>

 

  <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Continuer" /></p>

  </form>

 

  <p><?php echo file_get_contents('php://input'); ?></p>

 

ATTEMPT #3

<form action="index1.php" method="post">

<input type="text" value="demo" />

<input type="submit" />

</form>

 

<?php

$fp = fopen('php://input','r');

while (!feof($fp))

echo fgets($fp);

fclose($fp);

 

print $_POST['text'];

?>

[ranjuvs]

I don't find any problem. The same code is working fine for me!!!

[rocksolidhq]

Hey ranjuvs,

 

  Which one?  Can you describe your environment?  The code is on IIS 6 and i've been using IE7 and i cannot get any of these to work.

 

thanks,

dean

[Mr_J]

I've been using IE7

I was using IE in the past. Since I`m new to php, I have loaded Google Chrome. It gave me a much better "err description" than IE (infact, IE just kept on trying with a TIME OUT result).

[rocksolidhq]

Hey Guys,

 

  I've tried firefox, IE7 on different machines, and Chrome and all of them just time out.

 

  Is there something in my php.ini that might be amiss or an IIS setting?

 

  Can you tell me what you were running the code on and which snippet(s) work?

 

  What error did Chrome provide you?

 

I've tried $HTTP_POST_RAW_DATA and it returns the data but this cannot be a long term solution due to the memory load.

 

thanks,

dean

[ranjuvs]

Hi rocksolid,

 

See below my my environment

 

Apache : 2.2

PHP : 5.2.4

OS : Windows XP