CGI.pm accessing raw POST data

cramer · 11-25-2007, 05:28 PM

I would like to use CGI.pm to access the raw POST data sent to me from paypal and then send it back out using LWP. This code does it well.

Code:

# read post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
read (STDIN, $query, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
$query .= '&cmd=_notify-validate';

# post back to PayPal system to validate
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$req = new HTTP::Request 'POST','http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content($query);
$res = $ua->request($req);

However, I want to use the CGI module, any ideas? I have added it using the $q->param(-name,-value) function but I have no idea what I should be sending out through LWP, as it is a hash. I have tried sending the CGI object itself with no luck.

theNbomr · 11-26-2007, 03:02 PM

Seems to me that the CGI module is a server-side component, where your application seems to be a client. This doesn't seem to be a good fit for the CGI module.
--- rod.

cramer · 11-28-2007, 06:04 PM

That seems to be the case. The new query object from the CGI module isn't proving suitable to return to the server. This is unusually however as the same thing was done in the CPAN module Business::PayPal::IPN.

bigearsbilly · 11-29-2007, 03:07 AM

er, if what you posted works, why do you want to use the CGI module?

I don't get it.