Hi everyone!
I'm newbie in cgi-perl programming and I have such problem:

when cgi script read data, posted from html form with "post" post method, the read sub return zero of readed bytes, but $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} hold (for example) 7 bytes.

Any idea? Where I'm wrong ?

Here is my html from and cgi script: 

===========================
some_file.html
---------------------------
<html>
<head>
</head>

<body>
<form action="/cgi-bin/script.pl" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="query">
<br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

</body>

</html>
==============================





================================
script.pl:
--------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header;

$length = $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'};
$count = read (STDIN, $buffer, $length);
print "readed actually: $count, length: $length";
================================

[download]
output in browser:
readed actually: 0, length: 7

Yes, I may solve this problem when getting form input touch CGI.pm, but the code above is correct, isn't it?

Edit by tye, remove PRE tags, other formatting clean-up

In reply to I cannot read from STDIN in cgi-styled script by stan2004

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