Getting File Contents Via POST

[eluser]fuchong[/eluser]
Hello,

So I've written an API that's in charge of parsing through some POST data. In the POST data there is a docx file that has been read into a string by using PHP's stream_get_contents. The issue that I'm having is that CI is filtering the POST content even if I have xss_filtering set to false. Therefor when I try to write the contents to a file I get a corrupted docx file.

I've taken the core parts of this application and set up a non-CI environment and it works just fine - due to it's not being filtered.


I know that CI is filtering the data for security purposes, but is there a way to stop CI from doing this?

Even if it's possible feel that this is in bad practice. What we're trying to do is have a third party client send us a bunch of POST data and a file. Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Thanks!


Here's the code for what I'm trying to do

Read in the file and send it off

Code:

$handle = fopen("somefile.docx", "rb");
        
        $contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
        fclose($handle);
        
        
        
    $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://some_server_address/index.php/some_controller");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('file'=>$contents));
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close ($ch);

Get the file and make a new file out of it

Code:

$ourFileHandle = fopen("myFile.docx", 'w') or die("can't open file");
        fwrite($ourFileHandle, $this->input->post('file', FALSE));
        fclose($ourFileHandle);