Greetings Perl Advisors.

I have an interesting question that FAQ searches and O'Reilly's rodent book have been unable to help me with. As neither perl nor http are my bag normally, my question may border on the stupid side, so be warned.

I'm attempting to write a cgi script that will parse the content body of a custom crafted http request. The idea is that a very large Content-Length value is transmitted with the request, and that the content body works a bit like a data stream from the client to the cgi script.

My question is whether or not it's possible to get a file-like handle to the content body that will allow me to do things like 


     while ($line = <CONTENT_BODY_HANDLE>)

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and if so, how would I go about it?

Thoughts? Exclamations of how wrong my approach is?
Cheers,
Mike

In reply to Skirting the edges of RFC2616 in perl... by tid

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