I was the guy :)
Strange, because the "Writing Apache Modules..." book explicitly tells you
that you CAN do this (use <STDIN> to read the post line by line).
Based on my experience, and your snippet below, I'm guessing the book is
incorrect :)
-jse
> From: "Eric L. Brine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:39:44 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: <STDIN> reads everything as one line
>
>
> A few days ago, someone mentioned doing
> $scalar = <STDIN>
> read the whole POSTed data.
>
> I stumbled upon the following in Apache.pm:
> #shouldn't use <STDIN> anyhow, but we'll be nice
> sub READLINE {
> my $r = shift;
> my $line;
> $r->read($line, $r->header_in('Content-length'));
> $line;
> }
> This snippet is the tied sub which handles line reads from STDIN.
> Apparently, his problem had nothing to do with $/ as was suggested. I
> guess he should be using $r to access the POSTed data.
>
> ELB
>
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