Pre-processing the request body

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Hi folks,

I have a mod-perl app on the receiving end of a POST from a credit card
company, and they are sending the data as application/x-www-form-urlencoded
but they aren't URL-encoding UTF-8 characters. When I give that malformed
data to Apache2::Request it refuses to see any POST variables atall.

This company generally don't understand charset/header issues, so instead of
going through some pain, I'd like to re-write the request body and the
Content-Length header.

What is the most modperl-like way to do that?

I'm guessing the sort of filter described here
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html#A ll_in_One_Filtermight
be best, but has anyone made a wrapper that allows, for example, regex
search+replace on the request body and header-rewriting?

thanks
John

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Hi folks,

Re: Pre-processing the request body

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Hey John

If you are the type that likes to buy books, let me give a shout out to _
mod_perl 2 User's Guide _ by Stas Bekman and Jim Brandt.
It has helped me a lot to leverage the power available in mp2.

I notice Ch 6 of that book: Input and Output filters, with subsections:
I/O Filtering Concepts
...
Writing well-behaved Filters
Filter Examples
I would guess this book would provide all of the concepts, as well as good
pragmatic advice you need to move forward.

HTH,

-- jeff


On 4/21/10 7:40 AM, "John ORourke" wrote:

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'>Hey John



If you are the type that likes to buy books, let me give a shout out to _ m=
od_perl 2 User's Guide _ by Stas Bekman and Jim Brandt.

It has helped me a lot to leverage the power available in mp2.



I notice Ch 6 of that book: Input and Output filters, with subsections:

  I/O Filtering Concepts

  ...

  Writing well-behaved Filters

  Filter Examples

I would guess this book would provide all of the concepts, as well as good =
pragmatic advice you need to move forward.



HTH,



-- jeff





On 4/21/10 7:40 AM, "John ORourke" < urke.org">john-modperl@o-rourke.org> wrote:

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Re: Pre-processing the request body

Am 21.04.2010 um 18:57 schrieb Jeff McCarrell:
> If you are the type that likes to buy books, let me give a shout out to _=
mod_perl 2 User's Guide _ by Stas Bekman and Jim Brandt.

I think it's almost identical to the online version:

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/index.html

> I notice Ch 6 of that book: Input and Output filters, with subsections:
> I/O Filtering Concepts
> ...
> Writing well-behaved Filters
> Filter Examples

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html

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