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FTR, my code is a few lines shorter than the LWP example zentara gave, does more (meaning it's more verbose than necessary), and doesn't use the problematic CGI->Vars which joins multi-values with null bits which aren't considered/handled in the example.

Personally, I wouldn't be looking to use CGI or PSGI.

Installing and invoking either behemoth to decode headers and post data, only to then exactly re-encode them for the forwarded request seems a futile exercise, when you can easily arrange for most serious webservers to re-write or re-direct the url without need for any code. And the very definition of technical debt.

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Re^11: Shortest/quickest way for Perl to take POST data it receives and send a POST request with this data to another URL?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 06, 2013 at 23:38 UTC

    I tend to agree. That was not the OP's question though and it is easy to imagine the real use case is not a straight-up proxy. And exploring Perl options is more fun, well, not so much today apparently, and edifying.

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      I tend to agree. That was not the OP's question though

      Really? I thought that was exactly what he asked for?

      A possible solution is, of course, to parse the data using CGI, then to form and send a POST request using LWP, but this seem un-Perl-like and inelegant. Surely there's a simpler solution?
      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Now you’re just messing with me…

        Is there a way to take the request that was used to access a cgi script and turn it into an HTTP::Request object?
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