You could try rewinding request.body and re-reading it, although I''m
not sure mongrel puts the whole request there... It''s gotta process
the header enough in order to find your handler in the first place, so
you may be out of luck here.
On 12/4/07, Paul Danter <paul.danter at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi,
>
> I''m a newbie to Mongrel, so apologies if this is a dumb question.
>
> I''m trying to write a Mongrel handler to give my the *raw* client
> request, however all I seem to be able to get is the CGI headers using
> the Mongrel API.
>
> I want to be able to capture the originating request, not the CGI
> version as it may contain issues (like case, underscore''s rather
than
> hypens and any linefeed issues). It''s imperative a capture this
> exactly as it was sent by the client as this is an essential part of
> my rails application.
>
> I wrote a very simple WEBrick Servlet which does this:
>
> class OriginatingHeaderServlet < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet
> def do_GET(request, response)
> response[''Content-Type''] =
''text/plain''
> response.status = 200
> response.body = request.to_s
> end
> end
>
> which produces...
>
> GET /header HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us)
> AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10
> Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/
> html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: en-us
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> Cookie: _dk_session_id=5d1bb099d2a1ba28f06a0bd60e091e3d
> Connection: keep-alive
> Host: localhost:8000
>
> ...this represents the correct raw originating headers...
>
> When I try implementing the same thing using a Mongrel handler...
>
> class ClientHandler < Mongrel::HttpHandler
> def process(request, response)
> response.start(200) do |head, out|
> head["Content-Type"] = "text/plain"
> out.write request.params
> end
> end
> end
>
> ... I get the CGI headers (request.body is empty, is that correct?) ...
>
> SERVER_NAMElocalhostPATH_INFOHTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODINGgzip,
> deflateHTTP_USER_AGENTMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-
> us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/
> 523.10SCRIPT_NAME/cSERVER_PROTOCOLHTTP/1.1HTTP_HOSTlocalhost:
> 3000HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGEen-usHTTP_CACHE_CONTROLmax-
> age=0REMOTE_ADDR127.0.0.1SERVER_SOFTWAREMongrel 1.0.1REQUEST_PATH/
>
cHTTP_COOKIE_dk_session_id=5d1bb099d2a1ba28f06a0bd60e091e3dHTTP_VERSIONHTTP/1.1REQUEST_URI/cSERVER_PORT3000GATEWAY_INTERFACECGI/1.2HTTP_ACCEPTtext/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5HTTP_CONNECTIONkeep-aliveREQUEST_METHODGET
>
> Is is possible to get to the raw request from within a Mongrel handler?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> -Paul
>
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