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Hi folks!

I have a problem with posting form data on Apache 1.3.9 running on
Solaris 7. I have this small CGI Perl script which is printing out data
posted from an HTML form, but sometimes there seems to be no data posted
and I cannot figure out why!

The CGI (which also reports HTTP headers) says the content type is
multipart/form-data (which I want it to be), and content length about
1100 (which seems okay) but when the perl CGI is waiting for the actual
data to arrive, there is sometimes nothing there while other times there
is all the data needed, ie boundaries and all that.

Please can someone advice what is happening? Is there an Apache setting
missing or something?

cheers
Fred

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tail the error.log file

Quote:> Hi folks!

> I have a problem with posting form data on Apache 1.3.9 running on
> Solaris 7. I have this small CGI Perl script which is printing out data
> posted from an HTML form, but sometimes there seems to be no data posted
> and I cannot figure out why!

> The CGI (which also reports HTTP headers) says the content type is
> multipart/form-data (which I want it to be), and content length about
> 1100 (which seems okay) but when the perl CGI is waiting for the actual
> data to arrive, there is sometimes nothing there while other times there
> is all the data needed, ie boundaries and all that.

> Please can someone advice what is happening? Is there an Apache setting
> missing or something?

> cheers
> Fred

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> Before you buy.

Nothing out of the ordinary has been logged.

FYI - I've been working with web servers, CGI scripts, and system
admininstration since the early 90s so checking the logs was one of the
first things I did.

I forgot to add that we're also using BigIP. I cannot really see why it
would make a difference, but the traffic is routed through the BigIP so
it shouldn't be ignored.

Quote:> tail the error.log file

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I recently had a similar problem, but it appeared to have been caused by
mod_ssl.

I'm guessing this isn't your case?

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Quote:> I recently had a similar problem, but it appeared to have been caused
by
> mod_ssl.

> I'm guessing this isn't your case?

Not that I know, no. We're not using mod_ssl. Besides, even if we do the
whole thing in Java (and thus not using mod_perl at all) it is still
failing even then.

Thanks anyway for sharing your thoughts!
cheers
Fred

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Hello,

Does your script print anything to stdout before or during reading of
posted data? If so, your script is in deadlock with mod_cgi, which does
not read cgi-script output until all the request body is sent to
the cgi-script.

Ilia