$_REQUEST is empty if filesize > 'upload_max_filesize'.

[snoj]

It appears that when uploading a file which exceeds your local upload_max_filesize and post_max_size that the $_REQUEST array is entirely empty.

Is this expected PHP behaviour ? If it is, could someone explain it to me?

If else, does someone know of a workaround?
($_POST is also empty)

I personnally consider this as a PHP bug. Please comment...

[tsinka]

Hi,

this seems to be a known issue but there seems to be no solution.

The following link might be helpful:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.common-pitfalls.php

Thomas

[snoj]

Yes, I already read the post from [ed at example dot net] and have been searching google for the past 6 hours 😉 and finally posted here...

I now have found some bug reports dealing with the case but none seem to match exactly.

Here is a bug report i've just commented that might be worth following:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27844

...

[tsinka]

Hi,

I think, I was able to reproduce that problem ...

The problem might be

post_max_size = ??? in php.ini.

As soon as the posted data exceeds the value set here, $POST and $REQUEST were empty (besides the PHPSESSION info since I have session.auto_start on I think. But all data that came from the form disappeared.

When I set the value to a higher value than the size of the POST data to be expected from the form it worked.

The bad thing about this is that even if you set error_reporting to E_ALL not even a warning appears.

Thomas

[snoj]

Yep. that solves the problem and wrapps the class!

Thanks.

[snoj]

use:

$_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH']

and:

ini_get('post_max_size')

to catch the error!