CGI can still help you. You just need to make sure that the incoming data isn't regular form data: 
HANDLING NON-URLENCODED ARGUMENTS

If POSTed data is not of type application/x-www-form-urlencoded or
multipart/form-data, then the POSTed data will not be processed,
but instead be returned as-is in a parameter named POSTDATA.
To retrieve it, use code like this:

   my $data = $query->param('POSTDATA');

(If you don't know what the preceding means, don't worry about it.
It only affects people trying to use CGI for XML processing and
other specialized tasks.)

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I've used this successfully in a CGI::Application-based REST app -- at least for text/xml POST requests (I didn't test PUT yet, but I expect it to work the same way). I can heartily recommend CGI::Application::Dispatch, as it makes building RESTy APIs easier.

I simply added a wrapper method in my base class: 

sub get_request_body {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self->query->param('POSTDATA');
}

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My code can then choose to inflate that in any way it wants.

In reply to Re: REST Webservices by rhesa
in thread REST Webservices and CGI.pm by derby

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