POST wont work, GET instead

#1 (**permalink**) 09-25-2003

Hello-

Ive encountered a problem while setting up a website on my local
network. I have 3 machines on my 192.168 network. My apache 2.0.47
is setup on my linux box. When I access the page on that machine it
comes up fine.

When I access it on the other 2 machines I get a method error...instead
of POSTing it submits a GET instead.

Any ideas? I havent gotten it to work ever yet so its nothing I can go
back to to find out what changed.

TIA

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#2 (**permalink**) 09-25-2003

jeep@52.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Hello-
>
> Ive encountered a problem while setting up a website on my local
> network. I have 3 machines on my 192.168 network. My apache 2.0.47
> is setup on my linux box. When I access the page on that machine it
> comes up fine.

Can you post a link to the page, or at least show us how you are
accessing it? Are you actually hitting a submit button on the page and
doing a post in the form tag?

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#3 (**permalink**) 09-26-2003

Ive reduced the html file to:

<html>
<head>
<body>
<center>
<h2>
<form method="POST" action="http://www.ptsdsurvey.com/cgi-bin/mil_civ.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="mil_civ" value="military">
<input type="image" src="http://www.ptsdsurvey.com/mil_button.jpg" alt="Military">
</form>
<form method="POST" action="http://www.ptsdsurvey.com/cgi-bin/mil_civ.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="mil_civ" value="civilian">
<input type="image" src="http://www.ptsdsurvey.com/civ_button.jpg" alt="Civilian">
</form>
</body>
</html>

And my perl script (just the first part) is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
use strict;

my $BASE;
BEGIN {
$BASE="/var/www";
}
use lib "$BASE/perl_inc";

require "fileIO.pl";
require "html_utils.pl";
require "gen_numbers.pl";
require "ptsd.pl";

# setup variables we will use here
my $HTML_DIR="/var/www/ptsdsurvey";
my $MILITARY_FILE="$HTML_DIR/MilitaryConsentForm.htm";
my $CIVILIAN_FILE="$HTML_DIR/CivilianConsentForm.htm";

# set the MIME header
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

my $buffer;
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST")
{
read(STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
}
else
{
my $meth = $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'};
print STDERR "ERROR: Method Error ($meth)\n";
errhtml("Method Error ($meth)");
exit 1;
}

I get the method error saying:

ERROR: Method Error (GET) in my apache log and the html error page I
post.

Im behind a gateway router box as well. Im unsure if this has anything
to do with anything. I have never seen a POST end up as a GET during
small html development, so Im lost.

Thanks!

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#4 (**permalink**) 09-26-2003

jeep@52.usenet.us.com writes:
> Im behind a gateway router box as well. Im unsure if this has anything
> to do with anything. I have never seen a POST end up as a GET during
> small html development, so Im lost.

Set up a client side proxy to dump out the html coming from your
script, and make sure it's sending a POST. I usually use Junkbuster
for that because it's convenient (junkbuster.org) and there's debug
options to dump out the incoming html and so forth.

#5 (**permalink**) 09-26-2003

jeep@52.usenet.us.com wrote:
> And my perl script (just the first part) is:
> # set the MIME header
> print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

Just for kicks, right here can you try printing out the
$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'}? I know you print it later but I just want to
make sure it is not getting corrupted in some way.

> if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST")

Your script looks correct.
Just for kicks, see what happens when you change this line to:
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ /POST/i)

so that it does a pattern match... in case there are extra characters in
the ENV variable. There shouldn't be, but let's rule it out right away.

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