[REBOL] Re: CGI POST input
From: joel::neely::fedex::com at: 19-Nov-2000 23:36
Hello, Gabriele,
I wasn't able to get this to work.
[rebol-bounce--rebol--com] wrote:
> Hello Joel!
>
> On 19-Nov-00, you wrote:
>
> JN> OTOH, if I try repeatedly calling for input, concatenating
> JN> the results into a single string until the total length
> JN> equals the content-length, I get a script that never
> JN> terminates.
>
> JN> Does anyone know of an officially-sanctioned, reliable
> JN> approach to reading data from large forms (via POST, of
> JN> course)?
>
> Did you try opening console:// and reading from there? Like:
>
> port: open/binary/no-wait console://
> while [need-more-chars] [
> wait port
> insert tail form-input copy port
> ]
> close port
>
I used wait [port 5] hoping to get a timeout, but what I get
instead is the script (apparently) terminating with no code
following that point getting executed. It's late now, but I'll
post a copy of the code tomorrow.
> (I didn't try if /NO-WAIT works with CONSOLE://, tough)
>
It doesn't.
-jn-