When you create a new CGI object CGI.pm will read 'CONTENT_LENGTH' bytes from STDIN so the buffer will inevitably be empty as you have already read 'CONTENT_LENGTH' bytes from STDIN when you made your new CGI object. To check you are actually getting data just run this script (less is more):

#!/usr/bin/perl
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n$buffer"
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If you find that this proves that data is getting to your script on STDIN have a look at what is in the CGI object like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Data:Dumper;
use CGI;
$q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
print '<pre>'.$q->escapeHTML(Dumper($q)).'</pre>';
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cheers

tachyon

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