Well, first of all, you are using an ancient version of PHP. That message
was changed from a fatal error to a warning over a year ago.
And if you really want to have PHP accept non-typed POST data, it's an
obvious one-line change in main/SAPI.c
-Rasmus
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Chris Maresca wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I've been coding a PHP page that listens for a connection from an embedded
> device (a piece of hardware) that sends a POST query to Apache (and to my
> PHP pages...).
>
> I've having a problem that I can't seem to solve. The embedded
> application does not set a Content-Type header on the POST, so PHP fails
> with the following error:
>
> --
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:26:14 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/4.0.2
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <br>
> <b>Fatal error</b>: No content-type in POST request in <b>Unknown</b> on
> line <b>0</b><br>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> --
>
> The connection that the embedded system makes looks like this:
>
> --
> POST http://host.mysite.foo/dir/phppage HTTP/1.0
> User-Agent: ImEmbedded
> Host: host.mysite.foo
> Content-Length: 123
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cookie: embeddedsession=myverylongsessionvariablegeneratedbythehardware
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> --
> And below is some XML stuff...
>
> I've tried setting 'Content-Type' in $HTTP_POST_VARS, using mod_rewrite in
> Apache to change the content-type (with the -T flag) and looked at all the
> options in php.ini. I'm using PHP 4.0.2 w/Apache 1.3.12 (if you couldn't
> tell from the sig above...)
>
> Nothing works correctly. The mod_rewrite trick would work, but it makes
> everthing to that URL text/xml, including the PHP script, which no longer
> executes. I look on the mailing lists here and on usenet, but I don't see
> a good solution...
>
> Anyone have any ideas? At this point, I'm thinking of re-writing my code
> in Perl or Python since there seems to be no solution to this problem.
>
> Note that it's PHP that rejects the request, not Apache. I don't see why
> a missing content-type should do this. It should just default to
> text/plain or something.
>
> Anyway, thanks for any help.
>
> Chris.
>
> --
> chris maresca
> internet systems architect -- www.chrismaresca.com
>
> "linux, only up 138 days, because california has flaky power... "
>
>
>
>
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