[Zope] stdin.read() in Python script

[Janez Jere]

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()