sub recv_req { my $browser = shift; my $content_length = 0; my $req = ""; while (1) { my $chunk; $browser->recv($chunk, 10000); if ($chunk =~ m/Content-Length: (\d*)/) { $content_length = $1; print "content_length = $content_length\n"; } $req .= $chunk; last if ($chunk =~ "\r\n\r\n"); } $req =~ /(.*?)\r\n\r\n(.*)/s; if (length($2) > 0) { $content_length -= length($2); print "after -, content_length = $content_length\n"; print "[$2]\n";# I added this line minutes ago to capture $2 } while ($content_length > 0) { my $chunk; $browser->recv($chunk, $content_length); $req .= $chunk; $content_length -= length($chunk); } return $req; } #### print "after -, content_length = $content_length\n"; #### print "[$2]\n"; #### after -, content_length = -2 [node_id=3628&deletemsg_540904478=yup&op=message&message=&message_send=talk&.cgi #this line break here is caused by screen width fields=deletemsg_540904478 ]