[Petal] POST vs.GET

[Josh Narins]

> Am Freitag, den 24.06.2005, 14:52 -0700 schrieb Jing Wang:
> > looks like my browser does not recognize "some_petal_page.pt". It acts 
> > like I am downloading a file.
> 
> Probably your web server sends a Content-Type that makes the Browser do
> that. You might want to use the Mozilla/Firefox httpHeaders Plugin to
> find out (or simply use GET or telnet from the command line).

or 
> lwp-request -e 

this
> lwp-request -ed
prints the headers and not the content

> > 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.
> 
> This is an architectural workaround for being forced to act from inside
> a content handler. In case you are using mod_perl this is not necessary.
> You can always use a FixupHandler if you need to hook into all requests
> or handle the appropriate request phase.

I have been using mod_perl a long time, but I'm not sure I use 100%
approved methods.

I do params, cookies and header stuff during the PostReadRequest phase.

Since my PerlAccess handler needs either to have seen the right cookie
or examine the params.