Automatically handle PUT requests

make the following "just work"

    curl -X PUT -d foo=bar http://...

lib/Cake/Network/CakeRequest.php

@@ -161,7 +161,14 @@ public function __construct($url = null, $parseEnvironment = true) {
  * @return void
  */
 	protected function _processPost() {
-		$this->data = $_POST;
+		if ($_POST) {
+			$this->data = $_POST;
+		} elseif ($this->is('put')) {
+			$this->data = $this->_readInput();
+			if (env('CONTENT_TYPE') === 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded') {
+				parse_str($this->data, $this->data);
+			}
+		}
 		if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc') === '1') {
 			$this->data = stripslashes_deep($this->data);
 		}

lib/Cake/Test/Case/Network/CakeRequestTest.php

@@ -21,6 +21,34 @@
 App::uses('Xml', 'Utility');
 App::uses('CakeRequest', 'Network');
 
+class TestCakeRequest extends CakeRequest {
+
+	public $input;
+
+	public function reConstruct($url = 'some/path', $parseEnvironment = true) {
+		$this->_base();
+		if (empty($url)) {
+			$url = $this->_url();
+		}
+		if ($url[0] == '/') {
+			$url = substr($url, 1);
+		}
+		$this->url = $url;
+
+		if ($parseEnvironment) {
+			$this->_processPost();
+			$this->_processGet();
+			$this->_processFiles();
+		}
+		$this->here = $this->base . '/' . $this->url;
+	}
+
+	protected function _readInput() {
+		return $this->input;
+	}
+
+}
+
 class CakeRequestTest extends CakeTestCase {
 
 /**
@@ -41,7 +69,7 @@ public function setUp() {
 	}
 
 /**
- * tearDown-
+ * tearDown
  *
  * @return void
  */
@@ -204,6 +232,79 @@ public function testPostParsing() {
 		$this->assertEquals($_POST, $request->data);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * test parsing PUT data into the object.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testPutParsing() {
+		$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'PUT';
+		$_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
+
+		$data = array('data' => array(
+			'Article' => array('title')
+		));
+
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('data[Article][]=title'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$this->assertEquals($data['data'], $request->data);
+
+		$data = array('one' => 1, 'two' => 'three');
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('one=1&two=three'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$this->assertEquals($data, $request->data);
+
+		$data = array(
+			'data' => array(
+				'Article' => array('title' => 'Testing'),
+			),
+			'action' => 'update'
+		);
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('data[Article][title]=Testing&action=update'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$expected = array(
+			'Article' => array('title' => 'Testing'),
+			'action' => 'update'
+		);
+		$this->assertEquals($expected, $request->data);
+
+		$data = array('data' => array(
+			'Article' => array('title'),
+			'Tag' => array('Tag' => array(1, 2))
+		));
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('data[Article][]=title&Tag[Tag][]=1&Tag[Tag][]=2'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$this->assertEquals($data['data'], $request->data);
+
+		$data = array('data' => array(
+			'Article' => array('title' => 'some title'),
+			'Tag' => array('Tag' => array(1, 2))
+		));
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('data[Article][title]=some%20title&Tag[Tag][]=1&Tag[Tag][]=2'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$this->assertEquals($data['data'], $request->data);
+
+		$data = array(
+			'a' => array(1, 2),
+			'b' => array(1, 2)
+		);
+		$request = $this->getMock('TestCakeRequest', array('_readInput'));
+		$request->expects($this->at(0))->method('_readInput')
+			->will($this->returnValue('a[]=1&a[]=2&b[]=1&b[]=2'));
+		$request->reConstruct();
+		$this->assertEquals($data, $request->data);
+	}
+
 /**
  * test parsing of FILES array
  *