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Form Post Content Length

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wsexton

wsexton

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Dec 4, 2001
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When I submit an HTML form I'm not getting a content length environment variable. Here's my HTML: <form name="feedback" method="post" action="cgi-bin/feedback.pl">

The feedback.pl is a perl script that looks at the environment variables. I'm not getting the content length. Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
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What do you mean by "content length". You don't get it where? In the Perl script? Maybe just a little more info :)

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Here's my HTML file:

<html>
<head>Test</head>
<body>
<form name="feedback" method="post" action="cgi-bin/feedback.pl">
<p><font size="5"> <font size="4">Your Name:
<input name="name" type="text" id="name">* </font></font></p>
<p> <font size="4">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" name="Submit2" value="Reset">
</font></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here's a small perl script that uses the environment variable CONTENT_LENGTH. However, it finds REQUEST_METHOD.

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {
read(STDIN, $FormData, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
# Get the name and value for each form input:
@pairs = split(/&/, $FormData);
# Then for each name/value pair....
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
# Separate the name and value:
($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
# Convert + signs to spaces:
$value =~ tr/+/ /;
# Convert hex pairs (%HH) to ASCII characters:
$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
# Store values in a hash called %FORM:
$FORM{$name} = $value;
}
}

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
 
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