PERL CGI Beginners - Correct Way to read POST data

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Correct Way to read POST data

Shawn Devlin

2005-08-10, 3:59 am

Hello,

I need to read the, for lack of a better term, raw post data sent to a
CGI script. I have the following code:

use CGI;

my $Cgi = CGI->new();

my $PostData = $Cgi->query_string;

Is this the correct/best way?

The reason I ask is that, for one user calling my script, the $PostData
contents have the string ';keywords=' in place of any space character.
For example, if the user was calling my script and passing 'hello
world', $PostData would contain 'hello;keywords=world'.

Thanks,

Shawn

Zentara

2005-08-10, 10:00 pm

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:31:02 -0400, linux@secludedgrove.com (Shawn
Devlin) wrote:

>I need to read the, for lack of a better term, raw post data sent to a
>CGI script. I have the following code:
>
>use CGI;
>my $Cgi = CGI->new();
>my $PostData = $Cgi->query_string;
>
>Is this the correct/best way?
>The reason I ask is that, for one user calling my script, the $PostData
>contents have the string ';keywords=' in place of any space character.
>For example, if the user was calling my script and passing 'hello
>world', $PostData would contain 'hello;keywords=world'.

You could also try:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

my $buffer;
read (STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print $buffer;
__END__

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