(i did find this Calls to Apache::Request's param method sometimes end the program and return no data that has a similar issue, but i don't have any closures ... just some straightforward (or so i think) access to an Apache::Request object.

the form submit mechanism is: 

<form action="/admin/conference/build/pagetwo" method="get" enctype="m
+ultipart/form-data" name="form1">

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if i change the GET to a POST, i get no values from the following: 
my $req = Apache::Request->new( $pass->{r} );

warn "debug:" . $req->param('year') . "  " . $req->param('foundation')
+;

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i read through the perldoc *again* for Apache::Request, and the only thing i could immediately think of as being *wrong* was the lack of a call to:  $req->parse();, but i could be misunderstanding the following statement in the perldoc: 
 parse

       The parse method does the actual work of parsing the request.  
+It is called for you by the accessor methods, so it is not required .
+....

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am i incorrect in assuming that $req->param('foo') is and accessor method of $req?

In reply to Apache::Request->param() failing on POSTs by geektron

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