A) Are you using mod_perl or not?
B) The error message from CGI::Simple seems pretty explicit to me. The content-length was 31 but it couldn't read any data from STDIN. This is probably because you can only read data *once* from STDIN, so if anything has read the data from STDIN first, CGI::Simple won't then also be able to read the data.

GET type requests don't work like this, as reading the appropate %ENV variable doesn't reset anything. So check to make sure nothing is reading the STDIN before you do -- you might consider scripts started by mod_perl related directives?

C) If you are using mod_perl, I think you want Apache::Request or something similar.

In reply to Re: CGI::Simple POST data trouble by BUU
in thread CGI::Simple POST data trouble by Fang

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