WEBrick and Binary POST Data

[Gianni Jacklone]

Greetings Rubyists:

Quick question about WEBrick: Is there a way to get at the raw post data
from a post request, much like the var $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in php, and
request.getInputStream() from Java?

Is this just request.body in WEBrick?

Many thanks,
Gianni

 

[Martin Pirker]

Quick question about WEBrick: Is there a way to get at the raw post data
from a post request, much like the var $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in php, and
request.getInputStream() from Java?

ruby-talk 94785

helps?


Martin

 

[Gianni Jacklone]

ruby-talk 94785

helps?


Martin

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".

The example code shows a custom servlet using req.query["data"] where
"data" was the name of the file input type.

So I derive from AbstractServlet and use req.query["data"] to get at the
raw post data for a form element. Am I correct?

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..

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?

Thanks for helping me out, am I missing something?

Gianni

 

[Eric Hodel]

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[Gianni Jacklone]

Gianni Jacklone ([email protected]) wrote:

Martin Pirker wrote:

Quick question about WEBrick: Is there a way to get at the raw post data


from a post request, much like the var $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA in php, and


request.getInputStream() from Java?


ruby-talk 94785

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".

The example code shows a custom servlet using req.query["data"] where
"data" was the name of the file input type.

So I derive from AbstractServlet and use req.query["data"] to get at the
raw post data for a form element. Am I correct?


Yes.



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..

Why don't you use multipart/form-data on the sending end? (You have no
control over it?)

I do not. The POST is from a Flash Application, I am writing a Flash
Remoting Gateway for Ruby.

This should work.

It appears it does. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.
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