I am working on a CGI script that the only form of input is by ether a POST or a PUT. The problem is no matter what I do in testing the result of CGI's param('POSTDATA') or param('PUTDATA') is always undefined. The way that I am accessing these variables are:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/ :standard -debug /;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print header;

my $incoming = param('POSTDATA');

if ( ! defined $incoming ) {
    $incoming = param('PUTDATA');
}

print $incoming;

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The way I am testing this is using Curl to submit a XML file via a PUT to my CGI script, but when I run the script in offline mode I have the same issue. My curl command is as follows:

curl -T test.xml --trace output http://localhost/cgi-bin/api.pl

In reply to Can't access {POST|PUT}DATA from CGI script by vendion

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