Re: retrieve POST body?

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Sat, April 21, 2007 10:56 pm, Myron Turner wrote:

trick for you.    You use the Perl script in the action attribute of

your form. The Perl script saves the entire posted output to a file, then it sends back a page which uses Javascript to redirect back to the php script, where you can process the file. You send the file name back to the php script from the perl script in the query string of the url.

At that point, why not just have Perl call PHP? Surely Perl can do something not unlike 'exec' or whatever to run any shell script you want... I sure wouldn't do another round trip to the browser and add JS into the middle of this solution, if it's viable... Wouldn't work for me, as I can't do Perl. Perl could, could of course do the whole job. But since the Original Poster was (I assumed) not particularly familiar with Perl, I was essentially providing a Perl script to do the base essentials. So my hack would put him right back into PHP. If he execs from Perl to a PHP script to do the processing, then he would have to augment the Perl script to send back HTML to the browser, and if he can do that he can probably stick with the Perl altogether. Anyway, that was my reasoning.

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