PHP官方手册文档有一段话对它进行了很明确地概述。 

“php://input allows you to read raw POST data. It is a less memory intensive alternative to $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA and does not need any special php.ini directives. php://input is not available with enctype=”multipart/form-data”. 

翻译过来，是这样： 

“php://input可以读取没有处理过的POST数据。相较于$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA而言，它给内存带来的压力较小，并且不需要特殊的php.ini设置。php://input不能用于enctype=multipart/form-data”