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:
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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.
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The connection that the embedded system makes looks like this:
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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"?>
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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.
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chris maresca
internet systems architect -- www.chrismaresca.com
"linux, only up 138 days, because california has flaky power... "
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