Eric Hodel wrote:

>Gianni Jacklone (gianni / one6ix.com) wrote:
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>>Martin Pirker wrote:
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>>>Gianni Jacklone <gianni / one6ix.com> wrote:
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>>>>Quick question about WEBrick: Is there a way to get at the raw post data 
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>>>>from a post request, much like the var $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in php, and 
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>>>>request.getInputStream() from Java?
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>>>ruby-talk 94785
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>>I'm having trouble interpretting it. At the top of the message it says 
>>"Request body is not read from socket when servlets are started." Then 
>>soon after it says "But HTTPServer is going to read the body before 
>>sending response".
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>>The example code shows a custom servlet using req.query["data"] where 
>>"data" was the name of the file input type.
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>>So I derive from AbstractServlet and use req.query["data"] to get at the 
>>raw post data for a form element. Am I correct?
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>Yes.
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>>In my particular case however, I am after the entire body of the POST, 
>>my WEBrick servlet receives a POST request of binary data from an 
>>external agent, and I need to get the raw binary data and parse it futher..
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>Why don't you use multipart/form-data on the sending end?  (You have no
>control over it?)
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I do not. The POST is from a Flash Application, I am writing a Flash 
Remoting Gateway for Ruby.

>>From my tests, where I derive a custom servlet and in do_Post I use 
>>request.body, it seems to give me the raw POST data. Perhaps I am wrong 
>>in this thinking however?
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>This should work. 
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It appears it does. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.
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