My CGI module 3.52, and the version on my production server is newer, I would say 3.55 because it was installed via CPAN last week. As for how curl works when given the -T flag it does a PUT and looks like this

PUT /cgi-bin/api.pl?mode=MultiSpeak3 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.21.7 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.7 Open
+SSL/1.0.0d zlib/1.2.5 libssh2/1.2.7
Host: localhost
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 6581
Expect: 100-continue

(data)

[download]

I placed a copy of the full PUT in my scratchpad includeing the data that I am trying to send. If I don't use the CGI module and grab from <STDIN> I am able to get the data back, doing it this way may make things harder on me in the long run which is why I am trying to use the CGI Module in the first place. I thought that maybe the CGI moudle was chocking on the newlines in the sample file that I have to work from but making a copy of it and stripping them out did not help.

EDIT: Using your suggestion of LWP I was able to do a PUT to my script and it returned the data, so my problem is with CURL not giving a conetent type/CGI looking for a content type and not finding one or a little of both...

In reply to Re^2: Can't access {POST|PUT}DATA from CGI script by vendion
in thread Can't access {POST|PUT}DATA from CGI script by vendion

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