WebSphere HTTP Server - Unable to read stdin in a C CGI program when content

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Unable to read stdin in a C CGI program when content_type is multipart/form-data

Paulo Barroso

2004-01-19, 8:21 am

Hi all,

I'm using IBM HTTP Server V5R3M0 and OS/390 v2.10.
I wrote an C CGI program that reads data from stdin and send it back
to the client... (the html form use the POST method). That works fine
when the Content_type is "application/x-www-url-encoded" but when i
try to upload a file using "content_type = multipart/form-data" i
can't get more than two bytes from stdin (13-37)...

I downloaded and installed the samplec program and html from the IBM
developer resource page :
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserve...plec/c_demo.htm

It works fine, but when i changed (in the html page) the text input
field by a file input and added "enctype=multipart/form-data" in the
form tag i got the same problem.

Anyone can help?
Very thanks
Paulo Barroso