PHP script to dump full HTTP request to file (method, HTTP headers and body).

dumprequest.php

<?php
// https://gist.github.com/magnetikonline/650e30e485c0f91f2f40

class DumpHTTPRequestToFile {

	public function execute($targetFile) {

		$data = sprintf(
			"%s %s %s\n\nHTTP headers:\n",
			$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'],
			$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],
			$_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL']
		);

		foreach ($this->getHeaderList() as $name => $value) {
			$data .= $name . ': ' . $value . "\n";
		}

		$data .= "\nRequest body:\n";

		file_put_contents(
			$targetFile,
			$data . file_get_contents('php://input') . "\n"
		);

		echo("Done!\n\n");
	}

	private function getHeaderList() {

		$headerList = [];
		foreach ($_SERVER as $name => $value) {
			if (preg_match('/^HTTP_/',$name)) {
				// convert HTTP_HEADER_NAME to Header-Name
				$name = strtr(substr($name,5),'_',' ');
				$name = ucwords(strtolower($name));
				$name = strtr($name,' ','-');

				// add to list
				$headerList[$name] = $value;
			}
		}

		return $headerList;
	}
}


(new DumpHTTPRequestToFile)->execute('./dumprequest.txt');

example.output.txt

GET /dumprequest.php HTTP/1.1

HTTP headers:
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: http://localhost/
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.62 Safari/537.36
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: localhost

Request body: