body truncated on extra reads

[John ORourke <jo...@o-rourke.org>]

Hi folks,

I'm curious - can anyone explain what actually happens internally if you 
try to read more from $r->read() than specified in the Content-Length 
header?

I noticed when trying subsequent calls to read after all bytes had been 
read that it truncates the buffer, which I guess is understandable as it 
could be the next request.  I'm just wondering wether $r->read( $buffer, 
1000 ) is a bad thing to do if the incoming content is only 900 bytes.

cheers
John

Re: body truncated on extra reads

[Perrin Harkins <pe...@elem.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:51 AM, John ORourke
<jo...@o-rourke.org> wrote:
>  I'm curious - can anyone explain what actually happens internally if you
> try to read more from $r->read() than specified in the Content-Length
> header?

What used to happen is it would hang the process forever.  Not sure if
it still does.  Is there a reason you're not using Apache2::Request or
CGI.pm?

- Perrin