--- Tom Schindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Beberle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a similar question posted in the
> newsgroups
> > but no one seemed to have a solution. Here's what
> I'm
> > trying to do. I have a web page that does a POST
> to a
> > remote server. Basiscally, I'm trying to read the
> > post data and if it matches a regex, I want to
> > redirect it. Otherwise, I want to let the POST
> > continue normally (submitting to the remote
> server).
> >
> > At the PerlTransHandler stage, I have a handler
> that
> > reads the post data like so:
> >
> > my $method = $r->method();
> > if ($method =~ /post/i) {
> > my $content;
> > $r->read($content,
> > $r->headers_in->{'content-length'});
> > if ($content =~ /some_regex/){
> > # redirect
> > } else {
> > # continue with post
> > return OK;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > I can capture the POST data and redirect the user
> just
> > fine. The problem occurs with the submitted forms
> that
> > don't match the regex. If I just return OK, the
> > browser hangs (because the POST data has been
> reset?).
> > I'll admit I'm a bit confused as to what's
> actually
> > going on here (still new to mod_perl). I read
> you're
> > not supposed to parse the form data except at the
> > ContentHandler step, but since the form is
> submitting
> > to a remote host, I can't really do that.
> >
>
> Not 100% sure what you are telling me here but why
> not simply use
> Apache::Request->instance($r).
>
> The problem with POSTED data is that you can not
> read them more than
> once you can think of it like STDIN when read once
> you can not go back
> and read it once more.
Right, that's exactly the problem I'm trying to work
around. Once I've read the POST data, is there some
way to re-POST it?
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