I'm trying to debug this issue by posting raw PNG image data to the server with the help of Postman. Here's a screenshot, which might help to understand the issue:
On the server I'm receiving the file as follows:
$png = $GLOBALS["HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA"];
Then I write the data to a new file:
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $png);
fclose($fh);
The file gets saved correctly, but it now has a different file size, 417KB instead of 279KB which is the size of the original file.
Now of course, I can't do any image operation as none of the functions (such as getimagesize
which returns bool(false)
) recognizes the file as a valid image.
I have debugged this process to a point where the issue must be somewhere in the file operations, but I don't understand why the file just doesn't result in the very same file type and size as the original, when the only thing I am doing is using the same raw data.
UPDATE:
I've now compared the encodings of the original file with the uploaded one, and the former is in ISO-8859-1 and it displays correctly, the latter is in UTF-8 and has about 138kB more in file size.
Now I've achieved to convert the file on the server to ISO-8859-1.
fwrite($fh, iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $png));
The resulting file does now have the same output file size (279kB), but it is still not recognized as a PNG image, some information seems to still get lost.
UPDATE (1):
I've been able to examine the issue further and found out, that the original file is exactly 4 bytes bigger than the generated file, thus the resulting PNG seems to be corrupted.
UPDATE (2):
I'm now able to save the file and open it as a valid PNG. The following code seems to be saving the image correctly:
$input = fopen("php://input","r+");
$destination = fopen($myFile, 'w+');
stream_copy_to_stream($input, $destination);
fclose($input);
fclose($destination);
However when trying to open the file with the imagecreatefrompng
function I get a 500 error. I'm now trying to figure out if it's a memory issue in PHP.