How do I handle a POST request in Perl and FastCGI?
- by Peterim
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Perl, so asking here. Actually I'm using FCGI with Perl.
I need to 1. accept a POST request - 2. send it via POST to another url - 3. get results - 4. return results to the first POST request (4 steps).
To accept a POST request (step 1) I use the following code (found it somewhere in the Internet):
$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST") {
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
}
else {
print ("some error");
}
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%(..)/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
$FORM{$name} = $value;
}
The content of $name (it's a string) is the result of the first step. Now I need to send $name via POST request to some_url (step 2) which returns me another result (step 3), which I have to return as a result to the very first POST request (step 4).
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
