Running Perl as a CGI will *not* cache any variables (or anything else). Each time the script is called the Perl executable will be started, and when finished it will free all memory that it was using. If you are using mod_perl it is a little different. mod_perl will cache a script (and any modules used) in memory so that it starts up faster the next time it is called, and it *can* cache variables if your code isn't written with mod_perl in mind.
I hope that helps. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Hal Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Submitting Form Passes Old Values I've got what amounts to a control panel or preferences settings system that uses HTML and perl scripts. I'm running this on Mandrake Linux 8.2 with Apache 1.3. I have two pages that interact with each other. The 2nd page, the one I'm having problems with, has a number of checkboxes, drop down menus, and radio buttons. The first time I press Submit, all the values are passed properly to the called perl script. The problem comes in after that. When I use this page again, (both second and later times) and press "Submit", the page passes all the form elements (or rather their values) again, but twice. It keeps building, but I'm not sure if it adds another copy of all the values each time I submit the page or not. In other words, I press submit once, I get one set of values, and am returned to a front page. I go from the front page back to the page with the form and press submit again, and I get two sets of the same values. I just keep getting more and more values. How are these values staying in memory? How can I purge them? Thanks. Hal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
