Typo: "$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA" not "$_HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA" on Reproduce code, line 2.

btw $_GET works.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

Huge problem.  This just started happening on my Win XP Pro (SP 2) machine - checked with both the Feb 28 snapshots and March 1 snapshots.  It was not happening on the Feb 19 snapshots, but I think it might be going on since Feb 25 because of: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32109
I am using Apache 2.0.53 and I have php.ini in c:\windows.
Besides that I have the following 4 files in c:\winapps\php.net\latest: php.exe, php-win.exe, php5ts.dll, and php5apache2.dll, a fairly minimalistic setup.

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I'm also having this issue. $_GET and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA are populated, but $_REQUEST and $_POST are not.
I'm trying to develop an application for php5 but whithout being able to post form data, I'm going to have to go back to php4 which would be a real shame.

OS is win2K xp2
PHP Version 5.1.0b3
System 	Windows NT MINERVA 5.1 build 2600
Build Date 	Jul 14 2005 20:32:24
Configure Command 	cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--with-gd=shared"
Server API 	Apache 2.0 Handler
Virtual Directory Support 	enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path 	C:/Development/programs/php5/php.ini
PHP API 	20041225
PHP Extension 	20050617
Zend Extension 	220050617

Apache Version 	Apache/2.0.53 (Win32) PHP/5.1.0b3 DAV/2
Apache API Version 	20020903
Loaded Modules 	core mod_win32 mpm_winnt http_core mod_so mod_access mod_actions mod_alias mod_asis mod_auth mod_autoindex mod_cgi mod_dav mod_dav_fs mod_dir mod_env mod_imap mod_include mod_info mod_isapi mod_log_config mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_setenvif mod_userdir mod_php5

I'm writing an AJAX application and after using the XLMHttpRequest object to post the data to my server side PHP script, I have to extract the data from $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA as $_POST is empty.

//workaround

if (isset($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']) && !count($_POST))
  parse_str($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']  , $_POST);

This workaround did it for me, the above did not.

$pattern = "/\n/";
$replace = "&";
$GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA'] = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']);
if (isset($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']) && !count($_POST))
  parse_str($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']  , $_POST);

sorry in the previous comment the pattern should be \r\n not just \n

I run into the same problem with my ajax application.

When using a XMLHTTPRequest instance I need to provide the data in the following way:

key=value&anotherkey=anothervalue

So each key/value pair is separated by "&". Additionally I need to define the correct request header which must be set after opening the connection and before sending the request:

var postData = "key=value&anotherkey=anothervalue";
var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.open("POST",url,false);
ajax.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
ajax.send(postData);

When doing it this way I receive the correct values in $_POST. $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is empty. When not defining the request header $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA contains the data and $_POST is empty.

Daniel, that's the way it is supposed to work.  By default $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is not populated if we see a known encoding.  With a known encoding we decode it and populate $_POST.  If you want to force $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA to always be populated turn on always_populate_raw_post_data in your .ini