WEBrick and Binary POST Data

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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

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helps?

Martin

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Gianni Jacklone <gianni@one6ix.com> 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?

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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

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..

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

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Gianni Jacklone <gianni@one6ix.com> wrote:

From my tests, where I derive a custom servlet and in do_Post I use

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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?)

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?

This should work.

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Eric Hodel 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.

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?
   
This should work.

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

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