REST request data can't be read in 'put' method

Question

I\'m trying to develop a RESTful API with PHP without using frameworks. While processing the request, the client data cannot be read using this: parse_str(file_get_con

Answer 1

Could it be that there's something wrong with the web server?

Actually yes. After banging my head on this for a few hours, I found that the culprit for the missing data was this:

Note: Prior to PHP 5.6, a stream opened with php://input could only be read once

Another piece of code was accessing the php://input before my code, and on servers with php < 5.6, this caused the input to be lost.

Only on PUT requests that is.