Linus Lund wrote:
I have encountered a problem that I have been unable to solve using documentation/google. I'm running mod_perl 2 / (strawberry) perl 5.10.1 / Apache 2.2.20 on a Windows XP machine where I need to collect data POSTed from a hardware (the Box) that I have no control over. The Box is suppose to POST a semi colon separated list of data using a field called value. I'm using Apache2::Request to parse the POST, but it only captures the first part of the field (up until the first semi colon).My perl script looks like this; sub handler { my $r=shift; my $req = Apache2::Request->new($r); $input = $req->param('value'); warn "INPUT is $input"; return Apache2::Const::OK; } And this is what I see in my logs; [Sun Oct 09 22:08:20 2011] [notice] mod_dumpio: dumpio_in (data-HEAP): value=f1;2011-10-09;21:25:40;14;0;;0;0;3;1 [....] INPUT is f1 at [...] My thoughts on the problem is that it relates to URL encoding, as when I send a direct query to the script it only fetches the whole part when I encode the semi-colons. I have however not found a way to e.g. mod_rewrite the POST content. Any thoughts that could aid me? THanks
I believe that at some point, a bare semi-colon was/is considered as an alternative to "&", to separate post parameters. So with the query string above, you probably have one parameter named "value" with a value of "f1", then another parameter named "2011-10-09" with value null, then a parameter named "21" with value null, etc...
There might be an option to Apache::Request to avoid this.
