Problem reading content...

[John Soto <js...@jefco.com>]

Having problem reading POSTed content.... Am trying to write handler which will
pass content onto MQ. Currently, I have the content as text\plain and not
url-encoded.
Here's my POSTing snippet...

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("$0/1.0");
$url = "http://tssdatadev.jc.jefco.com/wilco/PutXml/asynch";

$req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$url;

$req->content_type('text/plain');
#$req->content_type('multipart/form-data');

$req->content_length(33);
$req->content("easter bunny is coming to town...");
$resp = $ua->request($req);
print $resp->as_string;

######################################################

Here's a snippet of the handler. I'm using read() to get the content... I
receive the content-length with no problem, but am unable to read the content.



package WILCO::PutXml;

#use strict "refs";

use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
use Apache::Registry;
use MQSeries;
use CGI;
use Carp;

do 'Constants.pl';
use lib '/apps/lib/perl';
require 'jefco.pm';

sub handler {

  my $r = shift;


# Parse out how I'm being called
  my($method);
  ($method=$r->uri)=~s!^.*/wilco/PutXml/(\w+)!$1!;
  $method =~ s/\?.*//;

# Get my arguments
#  my($http) = new CGI( $r->args || $r->content );
#  my %params = ($r->content, $r->args);


# Autoflush the output buffer
  $| = 1;
  open(XML,">/tmp/xml.log") || die "Cannot create log file: $!\n";


  $r->content_type('text/html');
  $r->header_out('pragma','no-cache');
  $r->send_http_header;


  $r->warn ("<!-- --------------------------- -->\n");
  $r->warn ("<!-- START PROGRAM - PutXml -->\n");
  $r->warn  ("<!-- Method = $method       -->\n");

############################################################################
# setup defaults, and envionment vairiables
############################################################################

  $ENV{MQSERVER} = $MQSERVER;

  my $PutQ = 'QL.WILCO.IN';
  my $GetQ1 = 'QL.WILCO.SYNC.OUT';
  my $GetQ2 = 'QL.WILCO.ASYNC.OUT';

  my $Msg;
  $r->read($Msg, $r->header_in('Content-length'));

  $r->warn ("<!-- ------------------------- -->");
  $r->warn ("<!-- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES : -->");
  $r->warn ("<!-- mqserver     = $MQSERVER -->");
  $r->warn ("<!-- Queue Manager= $QM -->");
  if (!($Msg)){$r->warn ("<!-- Msg = $Msg -->");}

I get nothing in $Msg... What am I missing here???

Thanks in advance!



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Re: Problem reading content...

[Thomas von Elling Skifter Eibner <th...@io.stderr.net>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:54:39PM -0500, John Soto wrote:
> 
> Having problem reading POSTed content.... Am trying to write handler which will
> pass content onto MQ. Currently, I have the content as text\plain and not
> url-encoded.
> Here's my POSTing snippet...
> 
> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> use HTTP::Request;
> 
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
> $ua->agent("$0/1.0");
> $url = "http://tssdatadev.jc.jefco.com/wilco/PutXml/asynch";
> 
> $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$url;
> 
> $req->content_type('text/plain');
> #$req->content_type('multipart/form-data');
> 
> $req->content_length(33);
> $req->content("easter bunny is coming to town...");
> $resp = $ua->request($req);
> print $resp->as_string;

Are you sure you can POST with a content-type of text/plain? I made a little script for some automatic form submitting where I did this (fitted in for your needs):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use URI::Escape;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("$0/1.0");

my $req = new HTTP::Request(POST => 'http://tssdatadev.jc.jefco.com/wilco/PutXml/asynch');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content(uri_escape("easter bunny is coming to town...");
my $resp = $ua->request($req);
if ($res->is_success) {
    print $req->as_string;
} else {
    print "Bad luck this time\n";
}

__END__

Try with this snippet and see how your POST goes..

--
Thomas Eibner


> Here's a snippet of the handler. I'm using read() to get the content... I
> receive the content-length with no problem, but am unable to read the content.
> 
> 
> 
> package WILCO::PutXml;
> 
> #use strict "refs";
> 
> use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
> use Apache::Registry;
> use MQSeries;
> use CGI;
> use Carp;
> 
> do 'Constants.pl';
> use lib '/apps/lib/perl';
> require 'jefco.pm';
> 
> sub handler {
> 
>   my $r = shift;
> 
> 
> # Parse out how I'm being called
>   my($method);
>   ($method=$r->uri)=~s!^.*/wilco/PutXml/(\w+)!$1!;
>   $method =~ s/\?.*//;
> 
> # Get my arguments
> #  my($http) = new CGI( $r->args || $r->content );
> #  my %params = ($r->content, $r->args);
> 
> 
> # Autoflush the output buffer
>   $| = 1;
>   open(XML,">/tmp/xml.log") || die "Cannot create log file: $!\n";
> 
> 
>   $r->content_type('text/html');
>   $r->header_out('pragma','no-cache');
>   $r->send_http_header;
> 
> 
>   $r->warn ("<!-- --------------------------- -->\n");
>   $r->warn ("<!-- START PROGRAM - PutXml -->\n");
>   $r->warn  ("<!-- Method = $method       -->\n");
> 
> ############################################################################
> # setup defaults, and envionment vairiables
> ############################################################################
> 
>   $ENV{MQSERVER} = $MQSERVER;
> 
>   my $PutQ = 'QL.WILCO.IN';
>   my $GetQ1 = 'QL.WILCO.SYNC.OUT';
>   my $GetQ2 = 'QL.WILCO.ASYNC.OUT';
> 
>   my $Msg;
>   $r->read($Msg, $r->header_in('Content-length'));
> 
>   $r->warn ("<!-- ------------------------- -->");
>   $r->warn ("<!-- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES : -->");
>   $r->warn ("<!-- mqserver     = $MQSERVER -->");
>   $r->warn ("<!-- Queue Manager= $QM -->");
>   if (!($Msg)){$r->warn ("<!-- Msg = $Msg -->");}
> 
> I get nothing in $Msg... What am I missing here???
> 
> Thanks in advance!