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Thanks for explaining this here. Is it documented anywhere? I have been chewing on CGI and the POSTDATA parameter for the last day, only to find out that the documentation is out-of-date. From the documentation on CPAN and perldoc:

If POSTed data is not of type application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data, then the POSTed data will not be processed, but instead be returned as-is in a parameter named POSTDATA.

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(If you don't know what the preceding means, don't worry about it. It only affects people trying to use CGI for XML processing and other specialized tasks.)

So, me, thinking I am using CGI for XML processing... Only after having it print out everything it's got, I find a param('XForms:Model') - I can't find anything about that on CPAN or perldoc for CGI though! Can someone update the doc or should I file a bug-report on CPAN?

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Re^3: REST Webservices and CGI.pm
by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 18, 2011 at 08:12 UTC 
    param('XForms:Model')

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    would mean that something script sent a CGI parameter to your script with the name XForms:Model. Why would what other programs send to your script need to be documented in CGI.pm? Update: Ah - XForms:Model would be somewhat "special", I now see. If this is handled by CGI.pm, then it should be documented there indeed.

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      Indeed. The code that sends, is this: 
      my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
push @{ $browser->requests_redirectable }, 'POST';
my $response = $browser->post( 
    $url,
    [],
    'content-type'=> 'application/xml',
    'content' => $xml
);

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      and just using a commandline curl POST (to indeed check LWP was not doing special stuff and inventing XForms:Model parameters) gives the same result.
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