# ATTN:senocular
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attn-senocular/63105
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attn-senocular/63105 "2004-09-02T23:49:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@meatcake](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/meatcake)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attn-senocular/63105/1 "2004-09-02T23:49:05Z")
just out of curiousity:
the ‘php//input’ thing does work when i test locally. But I have two questions for you.
1- why wouldn’t $HTTP\_RAW\_POST\_DATA; work?
is it a setting on the server?
I’m asking because I just uploaded a site to a client’s server and nothing at all php works (heh) mail, ^that^ or anything. Just wondering if there are options on particular php setups that can disable things like that (http requests or something?)
signed,
mike ‘no clue’ jones
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attn-senocular/63105/2 "2004-09-03T00:04:12Z")
yes. Note in [http://us4.php.net/wrappers.php](http://us4.php.net/wrappers.php)
_“php://input allows you to read raw POST data. It is a less memory intensive alternative to $HTTP\_RAW\_POST\_DATA and does not need any special php.ini directives.”_
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attn-senocular/63105/3 "2004-09-03T04:39:56Z")
it does work a charm here on my testing server, but i can’t seem to make so much as php mail() work on someone else’s server.