how to extract the "body" of a HTTP_Request2 request?
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From: "Robert P. J. Day" on 3 Mar 2010 18:13 just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want to create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as uploaded content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i can see: /** * Sets the request body * * @param string Either a string with the body or filename containing body * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename * @return HTTP_Request2 * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception */ public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) .... snip ... fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote PHP file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is just a trivial POST issue. i can examine $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see the *length* of the body, but i don't know what variable to use to get the content itself. help? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
From: Bill Shupp on 3 Mar 2010 18:30 On Mar 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want to > create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as uploaded > content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i can see: > > /** > * Sets the request body > * > * @param string Either a string with the body or filename containing body > * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename > * @return HTTP_Request2 > * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception > */ > public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) > ... snip ... > > > fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote PHP > file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is just a > trivial POST issue. i can examine $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see > the *length* of the body, but i don't know what variable to use to get > the content itself. help? > > rday $http = new HTTP_Request2('http://example.com'); $response = $http->send(); $body = $response->getBody(); Regards, Bill
From: Alexey Borzov on 3 Mar 2010 18:35 Hi Robert, On 04.03.2010 2:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want to > create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as uploaded > content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i can see: > > /** > * Sets the request body > * > * @param string Either a string with the body or filename containing body > * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename > * @return HTTP_Request2 > * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception > */ > public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) > ... snip ... > > > fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote PHP > file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is just a > trivial POST issue. i can examine $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see > the *length* of the body, but i don't know what variable to use to get > the content itself. help? Please clarify: are you going to send a custom POST body (as in XML-RPC or SOAP) or emulate POST file upload? In the former case you access the body via php://input stream, in the latter case you need addUpload() rather than setBody() and just access the $_FILES array as usual.
From: "Robert P. J. Day" on 4 Mar 2010 04:26 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alexey Borzov wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 04.03.2010 2:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want > > to create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as > > uploaded content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i > > can see: > > > > /** > > * Sets the request body > > * > > * @param string Either a string with the body or filename> > containing body > > * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename > > * @return HTTP_Request2 > > * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception > > */ > > public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) > > ... snip ... > > > > > > fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote > > PHP file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is > > just a trivial POST issue. i can examine > > $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see the *length* of the body, but i > > don't know what variable to use to get the content itself. help? > > Please clarify: are you going to send a custom POST body (as in > XML-RPC or SOAP) or emulate POST file upload? > > In the former case you access the body via php://input stream, in > the latter case you need addUpload() rather than setBody() and just > access the $_FILES array as usual. i want to send an arbitrary amount of *content* via a POST request to a PHP script, so i think it's the former that i want. until now, i've been able to do a standard file upload since the content was always in a file, but now the content can come from anywhere so i have to rewrite my program to accept raw bytes and just pass that on. could be up to several megabytes. from the Request2.php script, i can read about addUpload(): /** * Adds a file to form-based file upload * * Used to emulate file upload via a HTML form. The method also sets * Content-Type of HTTP request to 'multipart/form-data'. * * If you just want to send the contents of a file as the body of HTTP * request you should use setBody() method... and since i have no actual *file* but just the contents, i went with setBody() but (not being a HTTP POST expert), i wasn't sure how to extract the contents at the other end. now i see it's using php://input stream. thanks, i'll give that a try shortly. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
From: "Robert P. J. Day" on 4 Mar 2010 04:48 On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alexey Borzov wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 04.03.2010 2:13, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just getting started with the HTTP_Request2 class, and i want > > to create a POST request that passes potentially lots of data as > > uploaded content. from the class definition in Request2.php, i > > can see: > > > > /** > > * Sets the request body > > * > > * @param string Either a string with the body or filename> > containing body > > * @param bool Whether first parameter is a filename > > * @return HTTP_Request2 > > * @throws HTTP_Request2_Exception > > */ > > public function setBody($body, $isFilename = false) > > ... snip ... > > > > > > fair enough but, once i send off the POST request to the remote > > PHP file, how do i access that "body" content? i'm sure this is > > just a trivial POST issue. i can examine > > $_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] to see the *length* of the body, but i > > don't know what variable to use to get the content itself. help? > > Please clarify: are you going to send a custom POST body (as in > XML-RPC or SOAP) or emulate POST file upload? > > In the former case you access the body via php://input stream, in > the latter case you need addUpload() rather than setBody() and just > access the $_FILES array as usual. given that i don't know a whole lot (read: nothing) about custom POST bodies, here's what i'm after. i want to put together a POST request with which i can upload one or more POST parameters, plus an arbitrary amount of content. i can't use the file upload feature since i may not have a filename to go with the data, i'm just going to be handed that content. i know i can use addPostParameter() to pass those POST parameters, and i can extract them at the other end by referring to $_POST. that part's easy. but i don't see how to extend that to *additionally* passing that single large chunk of content. i suspect i could just make that another POST parameter whose value would be a massively long stream of bytes. is there anything untoward about that? or is there a better (more approved) way of doing what i'm after? can i combine adding POST parameters with setting the body? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
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