While I must say I am curious as to why you are not using CGI for the parsing of posted HTTP data as it handles all of this overhead for you - Nevertheless, the following code may be of assistance to you, splitting the received request into HTTP header and body portions:

{
    undef $/;
    my $input = <$client>;
    my ($headers, $body) = split(/(\r?\n){2}/, $input, 2);
}

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Also too, from memory, if I recall correctly, the content length header also includes the header component of the response, not merely the response body component which may account for some of your difficulties. I am however willing to be corrected on this point ...

 

Update - Updated code and comments to reflect the comments below ... ++Marcello

 

perl -e 's&&rob@cowsnet.com.au&&&split/[@.]/&&s&.com.&_&&&print'

In reply to Re: HTTP POST Problems... by rob_au
in thread HTTP POST Problems... by Anonymous Monk

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