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how to get raw http request parameters from php

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Turns out php will tinker with names of HTTP request parameters in some circumstances. The reason is historical: register globals was a dumb idea that allowed request parameters to be converted into php variables. A request parameters is something like ?id=42 in a GET request, or the name of a form input in a POST [...]