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Timer is initialized in php_request_startup() and terminated in php_execute_script(). However, I'm not sure, if php_request_startup() is called before recieving the data or after.

Following script succeeds with max_input_time = 1:

<?php
$fp = fsockopen("localhost", 80);
fwrite($fp, "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Host: localhost\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Connection: close\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "Content-Length: 3\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "\r\n");
fwrite($fp, "a=");
sleep(3);
fwrite($fp, "b");
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);
?>

So max_input_time probably limits the time to parse.