----- Original Message ----
> From: Nick Kew <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Input filter to process POST variables (e.g. mod_form)
>
>
> On 25 Mar 2009, at 14:34, Erik Westland wrote
>
> >
> >> From: Erik Westland
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:22:52 PM
> >> Subject: Input filter to process POST variables (e.g. mod_form)
>
>
> I'm sure I recollect replying to that question a few days ago:
> in fact my mailer shows your question as replied to. Guess
> maybe it got lost in the ether.
>
> >> It seems that "mod_form" (see: http://apache.webthing.com/mod_form/) does
> >> the
> >> parameter processing, but comes with the following ominous caveat:
> >> "mod_form works with GET but is largely untested under POST, and appears
> >> to
> have
> >> problems with POST and HTTP Keepalive. That will be fixed, but it's not
> >> currently a priority."
>
> There was some test case where it hung. I've also had reports of it working
> successfully with POST.
>
> >> Q: Does anyone know if this is safe to use? Their support page lists
> >> mod_form
> >> as: "unlikely to represent value to you."
>
> That means I don't want anyone making the voluntary donation my pages invite
> on the false premise that it's a tried-and tested production-grade module.
>
> >> Q: Is there another alternative to writing my own? If not, any idea what
> >> the
> >> keepalive issue was?
>
> mod_request (didn't exist when I wrote mod_form). Or apreq (did exist,
> but a more heavyweight solution).
>
> >> Q: Apache processes variables in the URL (parses into r->args) during POST
> >> requests, but the mod_form implementation doesn't look for r->args when
> handling
> >> POST requests. Is this disallowed/discouraged in the spec or an oversight
> >> in
> the
> >> implementation?
>
> Both. It's an edge case, and a mod_form incompleteness. But it won't bite
> you
> unless your application uses a POST form with a query_string in the action.
> Or perhaps does similar for non-browser data.
>
Nick,
Thanks for the tip on libapreq, it should work for me (until mod_request is
generally available). I am having some issues using it though, it seg faults
when I POST data AND ask for the body in my input filter. I am assuming I am
doing something out of sequence (hopefully not violating some operational
principle), but need to dig more (and post to the apreq-dev group).
BTW - I am open to giving to donations to you (or anyone else of similar
caliber) to answer about 20 mins of questions. I will be in the SF Bay Area
this afternoon. If you are interested, drop me a message (erikwestland yahoo
com).
Cheers,
Erik
