POST params with

[Nathan Wiger <na...@west.sun.com>]

Hey all-

I'm beating my head against this issue, and I can't seem to figure it
out. The problem is I have a <Location> block with a PerlHandler for a
ticketing system app I'm writing:

    <Location /tickets>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler Apache::TicketSystem
    </Location>

I'm using Apache::Request to access the params with this simple code:

    sub handler {
        my $r = Apache::Request->new(shift());
        my %args = %{ $r->param };

        # more code ...
    }

When I call the app with GET params, everything works fine. When I use
POST, though, I don't get anything in %args. Reading the manpage for
Apache::Request it looks like I should automatically get the params, ala
CGI.pm. Oh yeah, and CGI.pm doesn't work either, so it doesn't seem to
be an Apache::Request problem. 

Am I doing something wrong? Does <Location> not support POST params? All
the packages are at the latest rev as far as I'm aware.

   perl 5.6.1
   apache 1.3.20
   mod_perl 1.25
   libapreq 0.33

Thanks for any help.

-Nate

-- 
Nathan Wiger
Sysadmin and Perl Hacker
Sun Microsystems

Database connection errors in modperl

[Chris Pizzo <ch...@artinside.com>]

Hi everyone,
I'm a bit of a novice here and I'm having a strange problem.  I'm using
apache 1.3.20 with modperl 1.26 and embperl 1.3.3 and postgres 7.02.  Every
once in a while I get:

Internal Server Error


[11274]ERR: 32: Line 165: Warning in Perl code: DBD::Pg::db selectrow_array
failed: no statement executing at
/opt/apache/htdocs/bmg_graphics/trade/existingtrade_tracking.ehtml line 184.

[11274]ERR: 24: Line 165: Error in Perl code: DBD::Pg::db selectrow_array
failed: no statement executing at
/opt/apache/htdocs/bmg_graphics/trade/existingtrade_tracking.ehtml line 184.

Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6a mod_perl/1.26
HTML::Embperl 1.3.3 [Mon Sep 10 20:41:56 2001]


but if i refresh the page everything loads correct.  Any idea what's causing
this?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Chris Pizzo

Re: POST params with (solved)

[Nathan Wiger <na...@west.sun.com>]

Tom Servo wrote:
> 
> There could be something I'm missing here, but I believe you need to use
> $r->content() to get POST arguments.   Beware though, that once you call
> content() you can't call it again, so hang onto whatever comes out of it.
> 
> Also...isn't it $r->args() or am I just completely missing something here?

Yeah, but if you use Apache::Request then you get a param() method which
works just like CGI.pm's. That is, it transparently gives you your
params whether they're POST/GET/whatever. It also works really nicely
with uploads.

Anyways, it was a stoopid mistake, which you hit on in your reply. I had
a module using a module using a module which was using CGI. Once I
wrapped it in a check for MOD_PERL everything works.

Thanks,
Nate

Re: POST params with

[Tom Servo <to...@cnw.com>]

There could be something I'm missing here, but I believe you need to use
$r->content() to get POST arguments.   Beware though, that once you call
content() you can't call it again, so hang onto whatever comes out of it.

Also...isn't it $r->args() or am I just completely missing something here?

You can always do the whole $r->method() eq 'GET' ? $r->args() :
$r->content(); dealy-bob too...

------------
Brian Nilsen
tomservo@cnw.com

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> Hey all-
> 
> I'm beating my head against this issue, and I can't seem to figure it
> out. The problem is I have a <Location> block with a PerlHandler for a
> ticketing system app I'm writing:
> 
>     <Location /tickets>
>         SetHandler perl-script
>         PerlHandler Apache::TicketSystem
>     </Location>
> 
> I'm using Apache::Request to access the params with this simple code:
> 
>     sub handler {
>         my $r = Apache::Request->new(shift());
>         my %args = %{ $r->param };
> 
>         # more code ...
>     }
> 
> When I call the app with GET params, everything works fine. When I use
> POST, though, I don't get anything in %args. Reading the manpage for
> Apache::Request it looks like I should automatically get the params, ala
> CGI.pm. Oh yeah, and CGI.pm doesn't work either, so it doesn't seem to
> be an Apache::Request problem. 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Does <Location> not support POST params? All
> the packages are at the latest rev as far as I'm aware.
> 
>    perl 5.6.1
>    apache 1.3.20
>    mod_perl 1.25
>    libapreq 0.33
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Wiger
> Sysadmin and Perl Hacker
> Sun Microsystems
>