On Thursday 31 Dec 2009 00:44:31 Bruce Ferrell wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Thursday 31 Dec 2009 00:28:51 Bruce Ferrell wrote: > >> I see on the CGI web page that this: > >> =================================== > >> use CGI; > >> > >> $q = new CGI; > >> > >> $query = $q->param( 'POSTDATA' ); > >> =================================== > >> > >> > >> will return the contents of this URI: > >> > >> http://server/cgi.cgi?POSTDATA=posteddata > > > > In this case "$query" will return "posteddata", the value of the HTTP > > parameter of POSTDATA (a "GET" one in this case.). > > > >> How do I code so that I don't have to use POSTDATA? > > > > What do you want to do exactly? > > > > Regards, > > > > Shlomi Fish > > > >> I know it's a silly question and probably obvious, but not to me > >> > >> Thanks > > Well, I thought something I was looking at implied I didn't have to use > name/value pairs. I got out my handy dandy sniffer and it appears I was > utterly incorrect... Unless you tell me otherwise :) >
Well, you can always use PATH_INFO: http://myhost.tld/cgi-bin/my.cgi/more/path/here/ And retrieve it using $cgi->path_info(). Is this what you are looking for? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://shlom.in/towtf Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
