Re: [cgi-devel] HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA

[Darren G. <lis...@gm...>]

Hi there,

On 11 April 2011 18:42, <jc...@ol...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to receive at an url like example.com/feedback an xml
> that could be sent with something like:
> echo '<doc><item>Some content.</item></doc>' | curl -X POST -H
> 'Content-type: text/xml' -d @- http://example.com/feedback
>
> in php, that xml string is captured by $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA
>
> in my program,  I do something like this for each request
> req.load(boost::fcgi::parse_all);
> but then I am unable to find the xml string
> How should I query req to get that xml?
>

The raw buffer is held in:

std::string& raw_post_data = req.post_buffer();

I've been using a similar pattern to this recently - ie. XML passed around
with the FastCGI protocol just being used as an efficient protocol... But,
the library lacks the client-side code to make it really useful in this
situation. It'd be good to support this type of use-case better.

Suggestions in this area are most welcome.

Cheers,
Darren