AFAIK read only tries to read specified amount of data from filehandle and actually can return less data. Correct code should use loop like: 

sub _read_content {
    my $length = $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH};
    my $rest = $length;
    my $buf;

    while($rest < $length) {
        my $read = read STDIN, $buf, $length - $rest, $rest;
        die "Can't read from a stream: $!"
            unless defined $read;
        return $buf if $read == 0;
        $rest += $read;
    }

    return $buf;
}

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In reply to Re: Reading RAW POST data by IlyaM
in thread How do I read POST data that is not encoded, and was submitted without a parameter name by c-era

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