Most esteemed Monks,

I've searched for a while on this one. I would like to retrieve data sent via the HTTP Content area. Normally, to upload a file to a CGI one would specify the form-data to contain a form variable of type file and then the file, LWP example of this: 
   my $ua  = new LWP::UserAgent;
   my $res = $ua->request(POST 'http://myserver.com/Parse.pl',
                          Content_Type => 'form-data',
                          Content      => [file => ['Test.ini']]);

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CGI.pm example of reading the file: 
   my $query    = CGI->new();
   my $file     = $query->param('file');
   my $mimetype = $query->uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'};
   my $data;

   binmode $file if $mimetype !~ /text/;

   while (read ($file, $data, 1024)) {
       # do something with data
   }

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CGI.pm can easily pull the file variable and file. The program uploading to my CGI is doing the equivalent of this (but in Java):
   my $ua  = new LWP::UserAgent;
   my $res = $ua->request(POST 'http://myserver.com/Parse.pl',
                          Content => $file);

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The file is stored after the Content-type: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (in this case HTTP::Request is generating that for me, I could specify it). Anyway, I have not found any documentation explaining how to do this. I would like to use CGI.pm, but it seems like it parses the file (in Content-type) as if it were form-data. LWP doesn't seem to work here either. I assume this has been solved before, I just have not found the solution. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Casey

In reply to File Sent via HTTP Content by cmilfo

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