Hi all,

Emailed Randal about this but he wasn't able to shed much light on it.

I've been developing a site using CGI::Prototype and I seem to have stumbled on some strange behavior.

I'm using mod_perl running on Apache 2.0. I have a handler that checks to see if a user is logged in and redirects them if they are not. The handler calls another function that needs a CGI query object to check some cookies. What's happening is that if a CGI object is created before initialize_CGI is called, and a call is made to $self->CGI later in the prototype flow, all the data from a form using the post method is lost. It seems that the call to CGI::_reset_globals() is to blame. I'm wondering what the reason was for putting that there, and if it's really necessary. If I comment out the _reset_globals() call below, the post data is not lost.

Anybody else run into this problem and have an idea of a workaround? Can't use libapreq2 as I can't get it to install on my machine.

package Extranet::Test;

use strict;
use warnings;
use Apache2::Const qw(OK);
use base 'CGI::Prototype';
use Data::Dumper;

sub handler {

    my $r = shift;

    $r->content_type('text/html');

    my $q = CGI->new();
    print Dumper $q;

    Extranet::Test->activate;

    my $x = CGI->new();
    print Dumper $x;

    return OK;

}

# dummy call to CGI object
sub app_enter { my $self = shift; $self->CGI; }

sub initialize_CGI {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->reflect->addSlot
    ([qw(CGI FIELD autoload)] => sub {
       require CGI;
       CGI::_reset_globals();
       CGI->new;
     });
}

sub template {
    \ '
<form method=post>
<input type=text name=foo value=bar>
<input type=text name=baz value=bax>
<input type=submit>
</form>
        ';
}

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