[Petal] POST vs.GET

Jing Wang jwang at bcgsc.ca
Mon Jun 27 19:28:05 BST 2005


Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. I think I know what the problem is. It is not 
petal but the apache mod_rewrite that does not handle the post request 
correctly. I will see if I can find a solution to that.

Regards,
Jing

Mark Holland wrote:

> 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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