Re: [mp1] post2get and multipart/form-data

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Frank Maas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After some time doing other things, I recently started to upgrade our
> installation. While doing this I got the new version of CGI.pm that uses
> XHMTL for default and, as a result, uses multipart/form-data as default
> encoding...
> Our websystem works in a 2-phase manner: a user requests an URI and the
> server transforms this initial request in serving a SSI template. The 
> original URI is included from this SSI (thus as a subrequest). To make
> this work I convert POST requests to GET requests (so the parameters are
> not lost, based on a Geoff-example) and make sure that they get populated 
> to the subrequest (via a transhandler). This works... worked :-(

what has changed since it was working?

> The content method of Apache.pm explicitly bails out if the form is not
> send in the old way. Now I can get CGI.pm to do this (btw, this is not as
> easy as it is described), but since I want to support uploads at one time
> I must deal with the multipart thing.
> 
> Standard disclaimer: I tried to google this problem and searched throug
> the mailinglist, but the only solutions I found used Apache::Request. And
> I try to avoid using it because (a) it is heavy (is it?),

you must be kidding, Frank. libapreq heavy? it's much lighter and faster 
than CGI.pm, check the benchmarks:
http://modperlbook.org/html/ch13_02.html

> (b) it eats POST data in a way that CGI can no longer handle it properly, 

right, which is why you should move to Apache2, where it doesn't happen.

(c) if I want to change to Apache2 every usage of APR must be rechecked.

what do you mean?


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