Accessing post data

Hi,

I have implemented a couple of projects using mod_ruby and I really  
like it. I have now stumbled upon a problem which I can't seem to solve.
I am trying to built a server that will respond to XML posts. I run  
into two problems:

1. Mod_ruby doesn't seem to like/understand the Content-Type text/xml.  
I get the following error in the logs:
    [Wed Jun 03 22:04:03 2009] [error] [client 10.0.83.132] [libapreq]  
unknown content-type: `text/xml'
    Is there an option to make Mod_ruby aware of this content type?

2. Once I have the data I am able to see that the post data has a size  
of 250 bytes. Also the request_method confirms there is POST data.
    I cannot find any method to actually access these bytes. The  
method read returns nil and the functions gets, readline and readlines
    all claim they are private to Apache::Request.
    Since there is no documentation I am out of ideas. Does anyone  
know how to access the POST data?

	Fred