Accepting HTTP Post

[Raj]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is straightforward to allow someone to post an XML
file to a Perl-CGI script on a web server and storing that file on the web
server?

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance!

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[J. Gleixner]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is straightforward to allow someone to post an XML
file to a Perl-CGI script on a web server and storing that file on the web
server?
Yes

Can anyone help?

Documentation is the first stop.

perldoc CGI

Storing the data will require the correct permissions, but you'd send
XML just like you'd send any other string of data or file of data. If
you have an file, in XML, that you'd like to upload, look in the CGI
docs for "filefield".

 

[nobull]

I was wondering if it is straightforward to allow someone to post an XML
file to a Perl-CGI script on a web server and storing that file on the web
server?

Do you really mean a raw post post of an XML file (like a SOAP client
would), not post an HTML form response containing a file field
containing an XML file?

Anyhow the file type is irrelevant.

For HTML file fields use the CGI module.

For a raw file post do not use the CGI module, just use File::Copy
from \*STDIN.