1. I am running Perl 5.00 on irix

2. I have a program which first parses:

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    if ($INPUT{$name}) { $INPUT{$name} = $INPUT{$name}.",".$value; }
    else { $INPUT{$name} = $value; }
}

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Then a little logic:

if ($INPUT{'one'}) {&one; }
elsif ($INPUT{'two'}) {&two; }
else {&three; }

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3. When I access the script via a form by a direct connection to the Net, everything works fine (i.e. sub-routines one or two run depending on the form input).

4. But when I access the script via the same form through a proxy server (WinProxy on NT), only subroutine three runs, regardless of submitting the exact same form with NAME="one" filled in. In other words, the form does not seem to be parsed when submitted through a proxy.

Any ideas why?

In reply to direct connection works, proxy does not. by belize

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