I'm writing a mod_perl handler. Nothing exciting, just learning the art and having fun. Only I've hit a little snag-ette...

I have a form like this:

  <form action="" method="post">
  <input type="hidden" name="form" value="login">
  name <input type="text" name="name">
  password <input type="text" name="pass">
  </form>

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I can get the results of this form easilly using Apache::Request. 
    print "\nParameters:\n";
    my $apr = Apache::Request->new($r);
    my @params = $apr->param;
    if (@params) {
        for my $param (@params) {
            print "    $param: ", $apr->param($param), "\n";
        }
    } else {
        print "NO PARAMETERS\n";
    }

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Which gives me: 
  Parameters:
    form: login
    name: username
    pass: password

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Which is fine. However, if the URL this is posted to has a GET query string such as http://www.mine.org/handler?name=foo then I get this: 
  Parameters:
    name: foousername  ## ---- an array
    form: login
    pass: password

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So, obviously, Apache::Request does not differentiate between GET and POST data. However, I'd like to keep the two seperate. So my question to my fellow monks.... What would be the best way to stop my GET data and my POST data getting mixed up?

I can think of a couple of ways to do it. But I'd like to find a simple, efficient, and elegant solution.

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TTFN, FNORD

xaphod

In reply to Preventing GET and POST from getting mixed-up by xaphod

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