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I need a script to receive a POST request and then to send that same POST request to a different script. I don't mean that this is a redirect; the script simply notifies another script.

In theory, the first script could just immediately exec the second script. The second script would inherit the same environment (ie. CONTENT_LENGTH) and STDIN (from which it can read the POST data).

This would be very simple & efficient. The first script would (in theory) need be nothing more than:

#! perl
exec 'theSecond.pl';
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But then, what would be the point? Why not just put the code from the second script in the first avoid the need for the exec?

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In reply to Re: Shortest/quickest way for Perl to take POST data it receives and send a POST request with this data to another URL? by BrowserUk
in thread Shortest/quickest way for Perl to take POST data it receives and send a POST request with this data to another URL? by tunafish

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