Handling multipart/form-data requests via Apache Module

Hello,

We are interested in logging HTTP requests that are sent to web
applications hosted on the Apache web server. Eventually, as part of a
larger research project, we would like to be able to replay these requests
automatically on the web application. For this purpose, we have developed
an Apache module which logs HTTP GET and POST requests and associated data
in a seperate file. In this module, I am able to log data that is
associated with a POST request, but I am having difficulty handling
multipart/form-data requests and was hoping I could get some help from the
community on this.

Consider for example, the following form

upload.html

Re: Handling multipart/form-data requests via Apache

If you can access the POST data then it should be a matter of decoding
the mime string and get the multipart data out.

Are you writing your module in C, Perl or Python?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Jain Sachinkumar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are interested in logging HTTP requests that are sent to web
> applications hosted on the Apache web server. Eventually, as part of a
> larger research project, we would like to be able to replay these request=
s
> automatically on the web application. For this purpose, we have developed
> an Apache module which logs HTTP GET and POST requests and associated dat=
a
> in a seperate file. In this module, I am able to log data that is
> associated with a POST request, but I am having difficulty handling
> multipart/form-data requests and was hoping I could get some help from th=
e
> community on this.
>
> Consider for example, the following form
>
> upload.html
>

Re: Handling multipart/form-data requests via Apache Module

Hello Devraj,

Thanks for the quick response.

I am using C to write my module.

Can you give me some guideline to decode the mime string? If the contents
of multipart data is just text file, it is easy to read it and write to
other file, but in case of zipped file or image file, how this is to be
handled?

Language is not a problem, If there is better way to do this in Perl or
Python, I can do that also.

Regards,
- Sachin Jain

> If you can access the POST data then it should be a matter of decoding
> the mime string and get the multipart data out.
>
> Are you writing your module in C, Perl or Python?
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Jain Sachinkumar
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are interested in logging HTTP requests that are sent to web
>> applications hosted on the Apache web server. Eventually, as part of a
>> larger research project, we would like to be able to replay these
>> requests
>> automatically on the web application. For this purpose, we have
>> developed
>> an Apache module which logs HTTP GET and POST requests and associated
>> data
>> in a seperate file. In this module, I am able to log data that is
>> associated with a POST request, but I am having difficulty handling
>> multipart/form-data requests and was hoping I could get some help from
>> the
>> community on this.
>>
>> Consider for example, the following form
>>
>> upload.html
>>