Re: Problems with STDIN and POST data

On Feb 13, 2:36 pm, xhos...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
SergioQ <ser...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am having some very serious problems reading the POST data that is
being sent to my Perl script. The full code (minus my email address
is below). And essentially what I am getting back via email reports
is that that there is data being sent via POST, and tht it has a
length of 1431. Yet all my attempts to read it are failing
miserably.

use CGI qw(:standard);
...
read STDIN, $serg_bffr, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'};
...

Since you are using it, why not use CGI to read from STDIN for you?

IIRC It does automatically when use()d in this manner. Thats why
$serg_bffr is empty.

Todd W.
.

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