Re: POST vs.GET

Hi Jing,

Is this script running under mod_perl? If so, are trying to read in the 
POSTed data twice? POST data read can only be read once under mod_perl.

~mark

Jing Wang wrote:

> These are the things I have tried:
> 1. <form method="get" action="some_petal_page.pt">: works fine;
> 2. <form method="post" action="some_cgi_script.pl">: works fine;
> 3. <form method="post" action="some_petal_page.pt">: does not work. It 
> looks like my browser does not recognize "some_petal_page.pt". It acts 
> like I am downloading a file.
> Just to clarify, I have a "request-broker" perl cgi that retrieves all 
> the parameters passed from a petal page, and processes the resulting 
> petal page.
>
> Bruno Postle wrote:
>
>> On Fri 24-Jun-2005 at 13:16 -0700, Jing Wang wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I was trying to use method=POST in my form since I have a very long 
>>> parameter to pass. But I realized that POST does not work with 
>>> petal.   
>>
>>
>> Try it with double-quotes:
>>
>>  <form method="post" ... >
>>
>>  
>>
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