Hey, I was wondering if I could get some help with a little web server I'm working on. I have things working for normal requests and GET data, but I'm having trouble accepting POST data. So, I'm trying to figure out a way of reading the socket to retrieve the post data sent along with a request, at the moment I'm just getting the header - hence why it's working for GET. My code is below. Does anybody know of any way or ideas to grab POST data sent in a HTTP Request? Many thanks.

use Socket;
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Select;
use threads;
use threads::shared;

# Program Options
$|  = 1; # Whether or not to flush the output - 1 = yes, 0 = no
my $HTTP_PORT = 80; # Port to listen to for HTTP requests
my $SSL_PORT = 443; # Port to listen to for encrypted HTTP requsts
my $USE_THREADING = 0; # Create a new thread for each request
#setup the http port for use with interface
local *S;

socket     (S, PF_INET   , SOCK_STREAM , getprotobyname('tcp')) or die
+ "couldn't open socket: $!";
setsockopt (S, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1) or die "No Setting.";
bind       (S, sockaddr_in($HTTP_PORT, INADDR_ANY));
listen     (S, 5)                                               or die
+ "don't hear anything:  $!";

my $ss = IO::Select->new();
$ss -> add (*S);

#my $sse = IO::Select->new();
#$sse -> add (*S);

if($USE_THREADING){
    #asynchronous loop
    while(1){
      #continually grab requests from port
      my @connections_pending = $ss->can_read();
      foreach (@connections_pending) {
        #grab the header of the request            
        my $fh;
        my $remote = accept($fh, $_);

        #get the remote port and ip
        my($port,$iaddr) = sockaddr_in($remote);
        my $peeraddress = inet_ntoa($iaddr);
    
        #put the remote ip with header
        my @sendArray = ($fh, $peeraddress);
    
            #create a new thread to handle this request
          my $t = threads->create(\&new_connection, @sendArray);
            #don't leak memory!
          $t->detach();
      }
    }
}


#method called on each new connection
sub new_connection {
  #take the request header from parameter array
  my $fh = shift;

  #take the remote ip from parameter array
  my $remote_addr = shift;

  #read header in binary
  binmode $fh;
 
  #create a list for header vars
  my %req;

  $req{HEADER}={}; 

  my $request_line = <$fh>;
  my $first_line = "";

    while ($request_line ne "\r\n") {
     unless ($request_line) {
       close $fh; 
     }

     chomp $request_line;

     #add the remote ip var to header
     $req{HEADER}{"remote-ip"} = $remote_addr;

     unless ($first_line) {
       $first_line = $request_line;

      my @parts = split(" ", $first_line);
       if (@parts != 3) {
         close $fh;
       }
       #add method (get/post) to header with objects
       $req{METHOD} = $parts[0];
       $req{OBJECT} = $parts[1];
     }
     else {
       my ($name, $value) = split(": ", $request_line);
       $name       = lc $name;
       #add each variable to the list
       $req{HEADER}{$name} = $value;
     }
         
     $request_line = <$fh>;
  }
  #call the HTTP request handler method
  http_request_handler($fh, \%req);

  close $fh;
}
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