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michael dillard
michael dillard

Reputation: 479

Reading POST data with nginx and Perl FastCGI

I am setting up a website with nginx and need to let it run some perl programs, so I installed FastCGI and have it all set up. I added this to my site's configuration:

location ~ \.pl$ {
    gzip off;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    fastcgi_index index.pl;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /[...]/www$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
}

I then wrote a test.pl program:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "Body here ";
print $#ARGV;

And I do get the result as "Body here -1". So the perl program is correctly running. Now the only issue I have is that, for the life of me, I can't find how to read in POST data. If that's tricky, I also can't find out how to read in the GET URL parameters. Either would be sufficient for me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1981

Answers (1)

michael dillard
michael dillard

Reputation: 479

This was simpler than it would have seemed. Below is the perl script I used.

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use CGI;

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my $q = CGI->new;
print "Your name is";
print $q->param("name");

And that's it. It's not specific to nginx at all.

Upvotes: 1

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