Streaming large files

[g105b]

Recently in a WebEngine project I've had to work with the uploading of seriously large files.

Allowing POST input larger than a gigabyte seems massively excessive, and has to be done on the php.ini level so can't be controlled per-script.

The solution was to use a PUT request, then fopen("php://input", "r") to deal with the incoming data.

Could this be handled automatically by Input? The FileInput object could expose a getStream method that works under POST and PUT requests, but with PUT the file wouldn't automatically be loaded into memory.