Truncated $_POST data from "NULL" string character

[harry007]

Hi,

I have less hands on the web-application and currently facing one critical issue.
Issue: “NULL” string terminating character contained in $_POST is not getting parse on 32-bit server.
We have client, implemented in c/c++ code and uses curl library to communicate with server.
We have two servers with following configurations
1) 64 bit-Server: 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD, apache2, php 5.2.5
2) 32 bit-Server: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD, apache2, php 5.0.3
Now, when client machine sent a request (post method) to a 64-server containing “null” character is properly getting parse/understand by server but when same request is sending on 32-bit server, string present after “null” character getting truncated on 32-bit server.
I searched a lot on google about the issue but no help yet. My suspect is something to do with apache server settings.
Any pointer on it will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance….

- Harshal

[egami]

I don't think it has anything to do with 32 or 64 bit as much as it would with either an apache or php version/configuration error/issue.

[harry007]

I don't think it has anything to do with 32 or 64 bit as much as it would with either an apache or php version/configuration error/issue.

Thanks for your reply egami.

Yes I also think that it should not to do anything with 32 or 64 bit.

But I am also not getting/sure about which configuration settings are causing this behavior.

I tried to play more with that and following are some more observation
- Tried to read $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA for which I required to change some client code and observed that this raw data was contained the NULL character but for some reason $_POST data didnt get populated (may be because of client code change which fails PHP to parse raw data into $_POST - dont know)

- As $_POST data was not getting populated, I removed the client code changes and tried to read again RAW data but then RAW data was always remaining empty

I am not sure but is there any such configuration setting which can affect the Parsing of RAW data into $_POST becausing of which $_POST doesnot having data/string after the NULL character.

Thanks,
Harshal