Hi, I was adviced in comp.lang.python that I have a problem for this mailing list: Could you help me port my simple cgi to zope pathon script. Problem which I am unable to solve is reading posted raw data (legacy client posts a xml document to my cgi and expects a result). I tried very hard to find a solution, in mean time i wrote script with mod_python, which works well, but I need to run it fast in app server. Among all my attempts the closest solutions are: request.get(BODY) # BODYFILE a and request.stdin.read() # but it is not allowed to access read method. Thanks, janez # CGI script and test import sys, os if len(sys.argv) == 1: print 'Content-Type: text/plain' print length = os.environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'] #print 'length', length print repr(sys.stdin.read(int(length))) # !!! how to read posted data !!! else: # test echo url = sys.argv[1] import urllib2 as w x= w.urlopen(url, 'abc '*300) print 'read(%s):\n' % url, x.read()