A CGI script therefore should never trust Content-Length, but just read
stdin until it meets an EOF.
That is well-known to fail in CGI. A CGI must use Content-Length.
Hmm. any pointers where this is specified? I didn't have any problems with
this until now - but in trusting the C-L variable.
CGI doesn't require standard input to be closed by the server -- Apache just happens to do that for the sake of old scripts that used fgets to read line-by-line. Other servers do things differently, which is why reading til EOF does not work across platforms.
....Roy
