Re: POST oddness

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

That's pretty much correct - the code is designed to handle the case
where a request has both GET and POST data. The request method may
be POST, but the URL includes ?foo=bar&smeg=spod parameters as well ..

 - Jamie

"Ryan W. Maple" wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
> 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'}; }