$posteddata .= $_ while (<>);

Why are you using magical <ARGV>? This is a security bug. Try using your line with in a CGI script and fetch it as follows: http://foo/bar.cgi?/etc/passwd

Use STDIN, not ARGV. (Note: <> is a shorthand for <ARGV>)

And if you want to slurp, locally set $/ to undef and DO slurp: 

my $posteddata = do {
    local $/;
    readline *STDIN;
};

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A more correct way of getting post contents is my $posteddata = $r->content;, where $r is the Apache object, as pointed out by others. By the way: get into the habit of using strict. This is very important in mod_perl, since if you don't clean them yourself, global variables are not destroyed in between requests.

Content-Type: text/plain

This only works if you have mod_perl configured to interpret headers.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

In reply to Re: Apache::Registry and POSTs by Juerd
in thread Apache::Registry and POSTs by tomazos

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