I have been stuck on one problem for the past few hours. After reading everything I can find on HTTP Headers, other HTTP servers written in Perl, and gobs of other stuff, I'm still no closer to finding an answer.

I can read the request header just fine, though I am unable to get the POST data after the blank line. The only thing I have been able to figure out is that if there is a <CR> after the POST data then my script continues normally. Though without out the <CR> at the end of the POST data the connection just 'hangs', I assume it's waiting for more data (like a <CR>, which never comes). I've gone as far as trying to read the data in with 
while ($input = <$client>) {
  $input =~ s/\r\n//g; # kill CR and NL chars
  $input =~ /^Content-Length: (\S*)/i && ($content_length=$1);

  ... more code ....

  ## find a blank line and we already have the content length then rea
+d the POST data
  if (length($input) == 0 && $content_length > 0) {
     $client->recv($form_content,$content_length);
  }

}

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though still no luck. What am I doing wrong here?

Edit kudra, 2002-01-20 replaced pre with code

In reply to HTTP POST Problems... by Anonymous Monk

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