diff --git a/src/BeSimple/SoapServer/SoapRequest.php b/src/BeSimple/SoapServer/SoapRequest.php
index 8a03d7a..427673f 100644
--- a/src/BeSimple/SoapServer/SoapRequest.php
+++ b/src/BeSimple/SoapServer/SoapRequest.php
@@ -32,10 +32,21 @@ class SoapRequest extends CommonSoapRequest
      */
     public static function create($content, $version)
     {
-        $content = is_null($content) ? file_get_contents("php://input") : $content;
         $location = self::getCurrentUrl();
-        $action = $_SERVER[SoapMessage::SOAP_ACTION_HEADER];
-        $contentType = $_SERVER[SoapMessage::CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER];
+        /*
+         * Work around missing header/php://input access in PHP cli webserver by
+         * setting headers additionally as GET parameters and SOAP request body
+         * explicitly as POST variable
+         */
+        if (php_sapi_name() == "cli-server") {
+            $content = is_null($content) ? $_POST['request'] : $content;
+            $action = $_GET[SoapMessage::SOAP_ACTION_HEADER];
+            $contentType = $_GET[SoapMessage::CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER];
+        } else {
+            $content = is_null($content) ? file_get_contents("php://input") : $content;
+            $action = $_SERVER[SoapMessage::SOAP_ACTION_HEADER];
+            $contentType = $_SERVER[SoapMessage::CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER];
+        }
 
         $request = new SoapRequest();
         // $content is if unmodified from SoapClient not a php string type!