Re: How can I get the message-body ?

From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos_at_acm.org)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:51:09 -0300

Hello,

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:54:03 +0300, Timothy Madden wrote:
> In my application I'll receive XML text in the HTTP-message body in a
> particular format that only my application understands
> My script will be requested by the client with HTTP POST and the HTTP
> request will contain the XML as reqest-message body
>
> I couldn't find a way to acces the POST message body in my script to parse
> the XML and extract my data. I know I can get the request-message headers
> and I know I can set some of the response-headers.
>
> How do I get the HTTP request message body ? My request method is POST and
> the message body contains the information I need

You may want to try this HTTP client class that lets you send POST
requests with arbitrary body data. It even comes with an example of
posting requests with XML body data:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient 

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