How can I get POST data?

[Ulrich Schöbel-2]

Hi all,

I need to process POST requests with POST data in a weird format,
subject to a separate parser. Question is: How can I get hold of the
*unparsed*, raw POST data as it comes in?

There is no need to use dispatch, so its formdata parsing is out of
the way. It wouldn't work anyway, as the incoming mime type is not
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" (don't know yet, probably "text/plain").
The simplest way, [read [web::request -channel]] raises an error.

All this is easy with a simple CGI script, but I don't want to fork when
I have mod_websh at hand.

I'm using mod_websh (3.6.0b4) in Apache 2.2.4, if that's relevant.

Any hints, tips, tricks are warmly welcome.

Kind regards

Ulrich

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[Ronnie Brunner]

Hi Ulrich

> I need to process POST requests with POST data in a weird format,
> subject to a separate parser. Question is: How can I get hold of the
> *unparsed*, raw POST data as it comes in?
>
> There is no need to use dispatch, so its formdata parsing is out of
> the way. It wouldn't work anyway, as the incoming mime type is not
> "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" (don't know yet, probably "text/plain").
> The simplest way, [read [web::request -channel]] raises an error.

For me this works:

  [read [web::request -channel] [web::request CONTENT_LENGTH]]

(Note that I tried this within a web::command dispatched using
[web::dispatch -postdata ""] to avoid parsing of the post data by Websh.)

If that doesn't work: what's your specific error?

Regards
Ronnie
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