I know that this is an old thread, but I'm having exactly this problem and the answer presented isn't entirely satisfactory. What I mean is that the problem presented used the CGI module on the server side, but the solution presented (using $request->decoded_content instead of $request->content) applies to the client script, which uses LWP, but not to the server script. I don't see anything in the CGI module that will do the required decoding. In my case, I'm using Apache and an Apache::Request object, which also does not (from what I can find on the web) chunked data. I have no control over the format of the data arriving at my server. Most of the time my script works, presumably because it's usually not chunked. I am using Fiddler to debug my script. When I first inspect the response, the POST body appears to have stray characters before and after the actual JSON code. However, Fiddler tells me that I need to decode it, which I do by simply clicking a button, after which the JSON appears correct. This leads me to believe that I'm having exactly the problem described in this thread. If I had an HTTP::Request object, I would just call $req->decoded_content() but the only way that I know to get one is using LWP, which doesn't make sense on the server side.

In reply to Re^2: Getting error while decoding JSON object via POST method by johndeighan
in thread Getting error while decoding JSON object via POST method by perlCrazy

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