Re: reading post data.

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Michael Schout wrote:
> I am wondering what the best way is to read POST data under MP2.
> 
> In MP1, I was using $r->content for this.  In MP2, $r->content does not
> exist, so I used the version from an earlier copy of Apache::compat,
> which was using $r->get_client_block() instead.
> 
> Now, get_client_block() is apparently deprecated, and I am left with the
> choice of:
> 
> 1) using $r->read().  CGI.pm apparently does it this way.
> 2) Use APR::Brigade.  Apache2::compat from 2.0.0 RC5 does provides
> content() this way.
> 3) some other way that I do not know about :).
> 
> I am unclear what the advantages are for either approach.  The
> APR::Brigade docs do not really clarify this for me.
> 
> Does anyone know which of these methods is better and why?

Michael, as Jonathan has replied it's now the job of CGI.pm, APR::Request 
and other modules to provide this service. In the lack of it, you can use 
the following code:

http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/perl/modperl/trunk/t/lib/TestCommon/Utils.pm?rev=160947&view=markup
(see the read_post sub in it, drop the debug code to not add the overhead)

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