STDIN from CGI object

vit has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,
When I do

my $q = new CGI;
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then all STDIN string is read in this call.
I need this string to do something like that

read (STDIN, $query, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
## process string ....
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At the same time I need to have CGI. Is there any way to get STDIN input as is from $q?

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Re: STDIN from CGI object by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2011 at 15:05 UTC
See CGI::Simple::_read_parse, Problem with read( STDIN, $query_string, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} );, PSGI/Plack	[reply]
Re^2: STDIN from CGI object by vit (Friar) on Feb 19, 2011 at 16:08 UTC
Thanks, Do you think it's possible to first read STDIN to a file <FILE> and then call $q = CGI->new(FILE); ? Thus I will save unparsed data in FILE and have an unchanged workflow with the CGI object.	[reply]
Re^3: STDIN from CGI object by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2011 at 16:31 UTC
Maybe like this `SaveStdin('newfile'); open STDIN, '<', 'newfile'; $q = CGI->new;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: STDIN from CGI object by vit (Friar) on Feb 19, 2011 at 17:39 UTC
Re^5: STDIN from CGI object by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2011 at 23:47 UTC
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Re: STDIN from CGI object by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 19, 2011 at 19:18 UTC
What are you trying to do that you think you need both? There's probably a better way.	[reply]
Re: STDIN from CGI object by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 19, 2011 at 23:52 UTC
Do you want to do this because the request body isn't a form? If the request body isn't a form (application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data), then CGI provides the request body in `$cgi->param('POSTDATA')`. If you want to do your own form handling, you could set $ENV{CONTENT_TYPE} to application/octet-stream (or whatever) and fetch the request body using `$cgi->param('POSTDATA')`, or you could read STDIN and set $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH} to zero before creating the CGI object.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: STDIN from CGI object by vit (Friar) on Feb 24, 2011 at 22:46 UTC
I have exactly situation (application/x-www-form-urlencoded). So there is still a question how to get STDIN from CGI object.	[reply]
Re^3: STDIN from CGI object by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 24, 2011 at 23:37 UTC
That's what the second paragraph is about.	[reply]