Curtis, What is the syntax for passing these values through the url? Greg
Curtis Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/2001 01:44 PM Please respond to poec To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Faking form variables --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using the following snippet of code to put all form data passed into a > hash table. > > $form_data_size = $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}; > read (STDIN, $form_data, $form_data_size); > @info_returned = split (/&/,$form_data); > > foreach $keyvalue (@info_returned) > { > ($key, $value) = split(/=/, $keyvalue); > $value =~ tr/+/ /; > $value =~ s/%([\dA-Fa-f][\dA-Fa-f])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg; > $pairs{$key} = $value; > } > > is there a way to build a url that will pass data that is then parsed out > into a hash table. > > what I want to do is be able to have a regular link on a webpage that > points to this one and also passes a parameter to it. > this code sample works fine if I use a form on the referring page to pass > my info, but that's not what I want. The reason your code doesn't handle your request is because parameters embedded in the URL are in $ENV{QUERY_STRING} and are considered a GET request. Your snippet reads the parameters from STDIN, which is how POST requests are handled. The simple way to deal with both (and to eliminate your code): use CGI qw/:cgi-lib/; use strict; my %pairs = Vars; That snippet deals with either GET or POST requests. Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]