I've been serching high and low and I cant seem to find it.
When apache receives a POST / HTTP/1.1 with some data in the body field, is that data stored in memory or in a file? From what I've been able to test its not in memory.
Does the answer to this question change depending on the mime type of the data? If so, then where do file uploads ( multipart/* ) go ?
I know that such data is passed on to the destination file as STDIN for cgi, and that the answer for THOSE systems depends on the specific program there. For example python makes tempfiles. This isnt the question I'm asking. I'm specifically asking where the data is kept, between the server receiving it in the socket and handing it off at STDIN.
Thanks for your consideration!