Sorry, I don't know the answer.
My little testing on Solaris gives me similar results,
and I'd like to back up your request.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Vanasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "modperl mod_perl" <modperl@perl.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:09 PM
Subject: Apache::Request question
> I'm posting to mp , as this is perl-glue related.
>
> as a note, I'm using OS X as a dev box , and apreq doesn't compile
> right on it - so that might be the problem
>
> -----
>
> i'm standardizing my some functions to release into cpan and am at a
> bit of a loss on catching apreq errors.
>
> I have this code:
>
> my $want_to_die= 0;
> my $req;
> eval {
> $req= Apache2::Request->new( $r , %apr_args );
> $r->discard_request_body;
> my $args_status = $req->args_status ;
> my $body_status = $req->body_status ;
> my $param_status= $req->param_status ;
>
> print STDERR "\n args_status $args_status || " . ( ref $args_status );
> print STDERR "\n body_status $body_status || " . ( ref $body_status );
> print STDERR "\n param_status $param_status ||" . ( ref
> $param_status );
>
> my $body;
> if ( $want_to_die ) {
> my $body = $req->body ;
> print STDERR "\n body $body ||" . ( ref $body );
> }
>
> };
> print STDERR "$@ || " . ( ref $@ );
>
> The behavior I've observed is:
>
> If there is no POST , param_status + body_status are 'Missing input
> data'
> If there is POST, but its too big, param_status + body_status is
> 'Exceeds configured maximum limit'
> If i submit any query string GET args, args_status is "Unknown
> error: 0"
> If i submit no query string / GET args, args_status is "Missing
> input data"
>
>
GET with a query string returns "Error 0".
The docs say "...APR_SUCCESS on success, error otherwise".
I'd like to know where Error 0 is defined, what it means, and
how it possibly knows it wasn't successful.
>
> if i try to access the body on an overlimit, THEN i'll pull an error
> into [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( $want_to_die= 1 )
>
> The issue I have is:
> All of the _status returns are just plain strings,
> The text I get on what seems to be valid calls doesn't make sense:
> Missing input data / Unknown error -- those look like errors to me.
> but they're not.
> The only way I can seem to pull an actual error is accessng the body/
> param directly , and ignoring the object.
>
> So : Is there a standardized way I can test for having an error or
> not ? and are my status strings giving me the correct info ?
>
>
>
> // Jonathan Vanasco
>
