At 08:13 PM 7/20/01, you wrote:
> > does anyone know of an easy way to get raw post data into
> > a tcl variable (from a connection) without writing it into a file first.
> >
> > i don't seem to see a way to do without using a C extension.
> >
> > -mike hoegeman
set filename [ns_tmpnam]
set fp [open $filename w+]
ns_conncptofp $fp
seek $fp 0
append page_content [read $fp]
close $fp
is the method used by AOLserver itself to read POST data (ns_queryget,
implemented in tcl, loaded from form.tcl in ...modules/tcl/). If there
were a more efficient (C-based) interface, I'd imagine they would use
it. And the lack of one might be based on a thoughtful design choice...
Kris? Jim D.?
I suppose POST data file I/O could be a bottleneck, but have you profiled
it? The data written to the file lives in a dirty system buffer, so it's
unlikely it's jamming your disk. But why speculate when you can profile?
Mike Duffy
