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i'm trying to read an xml document sent to a cgi script, but the script just
seems to be hanging, not using CPU or memory, just no responce.
i'm just working with simple test scripts at the moment, i want to use the
xml::Simple module but even that hanging so i'm trying to read it from stdin
and just write the xml back out.
what am i doing wrong?
bellow is the script:

XML File:
<config logdir="/var/log/foo/" debugfile="/tmp/foo.debug">
<server name="sahara" osname="solaris" osversion="2.6">
<address>10.0.0.101</address>
<address>10.0.1.101</address>
</server>
<server name="gobi" osname="irix" osversion="6.5">
<address>10.0.0.102</address>
</server>
<server name="kalahari" osname="linux" osversion="2.0.34">
<address>10.0.0.103</address>
<address>10.0.1.103</address>
</server>
</config>

perl script:
use XML::Simple;
#my $config = XMLin("-");

print "Content-type: text/xml\n\n";
#use Data:umper;
#print Dumper($config);
print $ENV{"Request_Method"} . "\n";
print $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"};

my $query;
read( STDIN, $query, $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"} )
print $query;

Robyn Mylius wrote:

> use XML::Simple;
> #my $config = XMLin("-");
>
> print "Content-type: text/xml\n\n";
> #use Data:umper;
> #print Dumper($config);
> print $ENV{"Request_Method"} . "\n";
> print $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"};
>
> my $query;
> read( STDIN, $query, $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"} )
> print $query;
>


I understand you're entering the XML data on the keyboard.

The 'read' function call attempts to read characters from STDIN until
it encounters end-of-file or 'CONTENT_LENGTH' characters have been
read. It probably hangs because you have entered less than the
specified number of characters.

"Robyn Mylius" <> wrote in message news:<3efbbc32$0$26634$. au>...
> i'm trying to read an xml document sent to a cgi script, but the script just
> seems to be hanging, not using CPU or memory, just no responce.
> i'm just working with simple test scripts at the moment, i want to use the
> xml::Simple module but even that hanging so i'm trying to read it from stdin
> and just write the xml back out.
> what am i doing wrong?

Confusing your problem domains.

Rolling your own CGI implementation.

Emiting a CGI response with a content-type header of text/xml but an
entity body that is not XML.

Not enabling strctures and warnings.

Posting to a non-existant newsgroup.