in reply to Receiving POST

a CGI script is started on request of the webserver.
You should build an HTML page, containing a file input type (make sure the form tag contains: ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data") and a cgi script. ready to receive a paramter (file) by what ever name you gave the file input field

Have fun fiquring the pitt-falls out... ;-)

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Re: Re: Receiving POST
by toadi (Chaplain) on Jul 18, 2001 at 16:48 UTC
    So know that *duh*. I know howto write a file upload script...

    But someone sends XML with a post to my cgi|pl&url script. I just want to receive the file in a stream or something like that. Not in a file just a stream like to print to STDOUT that I immediatly can use.

    That must be possible without HTML page!!!

    Maybe my I can't explain properly what I mean *sigh*


    --
    My opinions may have changed,
    but not the fact that I am right

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      I think you are misunderstanding how CGI works. HTML is just a user interface for the web. When a user has an HTML form, the browser takes that information and creates a POST request from the form data.

      You don't need an HTML form to send a post. You could generate an appropriate one yourself. One quick easy way to do it would be to have the sender code use LWP to make the POST request and use a regular CGI to process it.

      -Lee

      "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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        Again. Who mentioned CGI. It isn't necessary in CGI. I know how LWP works to post something. I know that. I just told earlier I want to receive the XML stream posted to my https server. Can it be done just to receive the stream. I don't want that file upload thing 'cos that isn't what I need.

        Let me give a rough example.Watch out! insecure script: no use strict and -wT. Only used do demonstrate my intentions...
        The sending script:
        use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("PlanetXML/0.1 " . $ua->agent);

my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => 'http://www.test.be/cgi-bin/xmlrec
+eive.cgi';

$req->content_type('text/xml');
$content=<<END;
<request>
        <header>
                <from>Sender</from>
                <to>Receiver</to>
        </header>
        <body>
                lots of stuff
        </body>
</request>
END

$req->content($content);

my $res = $ua->request($req);

if ($res->is_success) {
    print $res->content;
} else {
    print "Error\n";
}

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        For the receiver: Maybe it's not ok what I do but it works :)
        use CGI;

$q = new CGI;

print $q->header;
@name = $q->param('keywords');
print map("$_\n",@name);

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        Hope this will show better what I mean!

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        My opinions may have changed,
        but not the fact that I am right

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