Thanks to Tom and Geoff for your helpful hints.
I've got a few ideas which i'm going to try based on your ideas and
hopefully one of them will work.
ps: Geoff, the domain www.modperlcookbook.org seems to have lost its A
record (modperlcookbook.org seems to be fine...).
> simran wrote:
> >>You could use
> >>
> >>$r->read($buf, $bytes_to_read, [$offset])
> >>
> >>if I'm not completely wrong.
> >>
> >>See:
> >>http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/api/Apache.html#_r_E_gt_read__buf___bytes_to_read____offset__
> >
> >
> > It would work if something had not already read the data once from the
> > filehandle... and since its STDIN i don't think i can do a seek(...) on
> > teh filehandle to put it at the start again... so what i really need is
> > to be able to get the raw content from $r...
>
> take a look at this module
>
> http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/modules/experimental/Apache-CachePOSTRegistry-0.01.tar.gz
>
> I think it's doing the kind of thing you have in mind. unfortunately,
> recent versions of CGI.pm (3.01 and higher IIRC) have changed their read
> syntax so the once cool hack no longer works for CGI.pm-based modules. but
> the module might give you an insight on how to solve your problem.
>
> HTH
>
> --Geoff
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