Re: POST oddness

[Ryan W. M. <ry...@gu...>]

There are two types of requests used in this case (I assume you're
familiar with them):  GET and POST.

GET will pass the key/value pairs in on the request line, ie

  http://www.myhost.com/cgi-bin/this.cgi?user=rwm&pass=test

This is trivial to parse out.

However, POST will pass the key/value pairs in the environmental variable
QUERY_STRING.

It appears like the code is appending this to the already existing %in
hash.  Kinda odd, I'm sure Jamie can shed some more light on this.

I hope this sheds some light on your problem.  If you need any more detail
let me know.

Cheers,
Ryan

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   Ryan W. Maple          "I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes..."  -LW
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, John Reynolds wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I recently upgraded web-lib.pl on a project that I am
> working on and suddenly my posting of data goes arseways.
> 
> Offending function is ReadParse.  Can anybody tell me what
> this is line is doing ?
>   if ($in) { $in .= "&".$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; }