Re: Passing POST Data to a SubRequest

[Doug MacEachern]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Chris D'Annunzio wrote:

> 
> > > Is there a way to pass data into a SubRequest using the post method?
> >
> > no, you'll need to use GET and $r->args
> >
> > which can be made transparent with the module below, provided your code
> > can deal with post POST and GET requests.
> 
> That works great if the Content-Type of the POST is
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded.  Is there a way to deal with other
> Content-Types like multipart/form-data?

for something like that, you'd be better off using the $r->pnotes table to
pass a CGI.pm or Apache::Request object to the subrequest.
Apache::RequestNotes on cpan might be useful to you.

Re: Passing POST Data to a SubRequest

[Chris D'Annunzio]

> > Is there a way to pass data into a SubRequest using the post method?
>
> no, you'll need to use GET and $r->args
>
> which can be made transparent with the module below, provided your code
> can deal with post POST and GET requests.

That works great if the Content-Type of the POST is
application/x-www-form-urlencoded.  Is there a way to deal with other
Content-Types like multipart/form-data?

Best Regards,
Chris D'Annunzio

Re: Passing POST Data to a SubRequest

[Doug MacEachern]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Chris D'Annunzio wrote:

> Is there a way to pass data into a SubRequest using the post method?

no, you'll need to use GET and $r->args

which can be made transparent with the module below, provided your code
can deal with post POST and GET requests.

package Apache::POST2GET;

use Apache::Constants qw(M_GET);

sub handler {
my $r = shift;
if ($r->method eq 'POST') { 
   my $content = $r->content;
   $r->args($content);
   $r->method('GET');
   $r->method_number(M_GET);
   $r->headers_in->unset('Content-length');
}
}

__END__

#httpd.conf

PerlInitHandler Apache::POST2GET 

Passing POST Data to a SubRequest

[Chris D'Annunzio]

Is there a way to pass data into a SubRequest using 
the post method?
 
I'm sure there's something I'm missing ... here's 
what I have so far:
 
Inside the content handler of my priamary 
request I can create a subrequest using
    my $subr = 
$r->lookup_uri($uri);
 
I realize that I can set various headers like the 
Content-Type and Content-Length using
    
$subr->header_in('Content-Length' => 1234);
 
Then I can run the content handler of the 
subrequest using
    $subr->run;
 
 
Inside the content handler for the subrequest I 
want to be able to read the data using:
    $r->read($buff, 
$r->header_in('Content-Length'));
 
Any ideas on how I would set-up the buffer that 
$r->read() reads from?
 
Regards,
Chris D'Annunzio