If you can access the POST data then it should be a matter of decoding the mime string and get the multipart data out.
Are you writing your module in C, Perl or Python? On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Jain Sachinkumar <saja...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > We are interested in logging HTTP requests that are sent to web > applications hosted on the Apache web server. Eventually, as part of a > larger research project, we would like to be able to replay these requests > automatically on the web application. For this purpose, we have developed > an Apache module which logs HTTP GET and POST requests and associated data > in a seperate file. In this module, I am able to log data that is > associated with a POST request, but I am having difficulty handling > multipart/form-data requests and was hoping I could get some help from the > community on this. > > Consider for example, the following form > > upload.html > <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploader.php" method="POST"> > Last Name: <input type="text" name="lname" size="20" /><br /> > Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" /><br /> > <input type="submit" value="Upload File" /> > </form> > > uploader.php > This is the php script which will handles the file that is sent through > the HTML page. > > In our logger, we already have the functionality to log the 'lname', > 'uploadedfile' fields and their values. But, in addition to the file's > name which comes as a value of the 'uplaodedfile' form field, we would > like to get the file's contents as well. We would like to save the file to > a predetermined location, for e.g., if the user uploads a zip file, we > would like the logger to store the zip file before passing it on to the > web application. > > Is there a way to get the file contents in a logger software that is > sitting on Apache between the user and the web application. Any > suggestions/advice would be appreciated. > > Regards, > - Sachin Jain > Research Assistant, > Information Systems Department, > University of Maryland, Baltimore County > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > -- Follow me on Twitter, http://twitter.com/mdevraj "The secret impresses no-one, the trick you use it for is everything" - Alfred Borden (The Prestiege) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
