Syntax for POST processing via CGI?

[Mark Smith]

Bill, that looks like multi-part form data. I'm not very up on that,  
but I think the numbers at the start of each part do have some  
significance.

Maybe Dave or Andre can chip in here? Anyone?

best,

Mark

On 10 Jan 2009, at 17:52, Bill Marriott wrote:

> Thanks so much, Mark!
>
> That worked; much easier than I thought... though the return from  
> stdin is
> more like:
>
>> -----------------------------7d92ce191e091a
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FirstName"
>>
>> Bill
>
> and not the value/parameter pairs you get from a GET. I wonder what  
> the
> number in the first line signifies (it's not the value specified in  
> the
> $UNIQUE_ID global).
>
> It's interesting how a binary upload is handled... I get:
>
>> -----------------------------7d92ce191e091a
>> Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FileUpload"; filename=""
>> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>
> followed by a variety of stuff depending on what kind of document I've
> submitted. It doesn't look like it's Mime (or Base64 encoded), and  
> it's
> nowhere near the full number of bytes in the file. I might also  
> note that
> uploading is considerably slower than, say, PHP -- a 20K JPG took  
> more than
> two minutes. Is this something to do with the way the data is being  
> read?
>
> What's the magic in handling a file upload? (Again, bare-bones.)
>
> FWIW I think I'll put this together in an article for the next revUp
> newsletter.
>
> - Bill
>
> "Mark Smith" wrote:
>
>> on startup
>>    put postData() into tPostData
>>    split tPostData by "&" & "="
>>    -- postData is now an array of the form data
>>
>> end startup
>>
>> function postData
>>    put empty into tData
>>    put 0 into c
>>    repeat while tData is empty and c < 20
>>       read from stdin until empty
>>       put it after tData
>>       add 1 to c
>>       wait 20 millisecs
>>    end repeat
>>    return tData
>> end postData
>>
>>
>> note that it reads from stdin repeatedly until it's got something  
>> -  for
>> some reason, the data doesn't always appear straight away.
>>
>> On 10 Jan 2009, at 14:42, Bill Marriott wrote:
>>
>>> anyone have a
>>> bare-bones script for processing POST submissions with CGI
>
>
>
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