From: Operating system: All PHP version: 5.4.0beta1 Package: Streams related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:PUT request data should be parsed just like POST
Description: ------------ Data that is posted to PHP via the PUT method is not parsed at all and is not available to PHP. This is particularly problematic for data sent encoded as 'multipart/form-data'. Basically, a request sent (with files and/or non-file data) via PUT should be parsed using the same functions used for requests sent via POST. Ideally, $_FILES and *either* $_POST or a new $_PUT superglobals should be populated in PUT requests. The answer is *not* to simply use parse_str() because that does not handle multipart/form-data requests. This is something that would help every RESTful interface that people are trying to do with PHP. There are many people who have these problems and have to implement (usually incomplete and/or buggy) PHP solutions, eg: * Example of someone's wrong and incomplete solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5483851/manually-parse-raw- http-data-with-php * Example of other people having problems: http://drupal.org/node/1270190 I ended up having to write half a page of code just to parse file and normal data out of php://input stream which is not going to be as well tested or as stable as PHP's existing C code that parses the data when using the POST method. This could (possibly) be as simple as changing lines such as: `if(!strcmp(SG(request_info).request_method, "POST"))` to `if(!strcmp(SG(request_info).request_method, "POST") || !strcmp(SG(request_info).request_method, "PUT"))` or even adding a new superglobal called $_PUT (but still re-using $_FILES). Test script: --------------- The request: #!/bin/sh curl "https://localhost/restful_server/"; -X PUT -F "photo=@my_image.jpg;type=image/jpg" -F "foo=bar" The php code: <?php echo "POST: \n"; var_dump($_POST); echo "PUT: \n"; @var_dump($_PUT); // obviously this won't exist yet in php 5.4/5.3 echo "FILES: \n"; var_dump($_FILES); Expected result: ---------------- POST: array(0) { } PUT: array(1) { ["foo"]=> string(3) "bar" } FILES: array(1) { ["photo"]=> array(5) { ["name"]=> string(6) "my_image.jpg" ["type"]=> string(9) "image/jpg" ["tmp_name"]=> string(26) "/private/var/tmp/my_image.jpg" ["error"]=> int(0) ["size"]=> int(1) } } Actual result: -------------- POST: array(0) { } PUT: NULL FILES: array(0) { } -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55815&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55815&r=mysqlcfg
