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Jonathan Rockway wrote:
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<pre wrap="">* Ian Docherty <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:catalyst@iandocherty.com"><catalyst@iandocherty.com></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">I am sending a POST to a Catalyst app and according to the documention
I expected the request body to
contain the data I sent. Instead it holds a filename in the tmp
directory which contains the document. Is
this an expected behaviour?
e.g. in my test script
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux:3000/svc/to/1001">http://linux:3000/svc/to/1001</a>');
$request->content_type('text/text');
$request->content('THIS IS THE STRING');
my $response = $ua->request($request);
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Basically, HTTP::Body assumes you are sending your content as
application/octet-stream, since it's not multipart/form-data or
application/x-www-form-urlencoded (the two cases that it treats
specially).
Since file uploads are application/octet-stream, we put the data into
a file. Maybe it would be better to keep it in memory unless
Content-Length exceeds a certain length, but the current behavior is
consistent and reliable, so I don't see why we should change it. It's
really not that confusing.
Finally, the "string" that you see in $c->req->body is actually an
IO::File object, so you can easily suck the file in if the need
arises.
Regards,
Jonathan Rockway
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Thank you for that explanation. In the light of this does the following
seem reasonable.<br>
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I am creating a web service (xml over http) so the POST method would
present an xml<br>
document to the controller using content-type text/xml and the
controller would read it<br>
and parse it.<br>
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Regards<br>
Ian<br>
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