On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:36, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > First there was "use CGI". Now there are lots of modules > which provide a similar service, for example CGI::Simple. > > What is the modern best solution for parsing form data, etc? > libapreq?
It depends on what your needs are. If you just need to parse form data and cookies, and don't care about things like generating HTML with sticky form widgets, I would stay away from CGI.pm. It works fine, but other modules are faster and take less memory. If you only need to run on mod_perl, libapreq is a good choice. It is the fastest. I don't think it is fully working on mod_perl 2 yet, but maybe someone else can correct me on that if I'm wrong. If you want to write scripts that work under mod_perl AND mod_cgi, CGI::Simple is a good choice. Same API as CGI.pm, better performance. I also like CGI_Lite, because it's much simpler than even CGI::Simple, and doesn't use globals internally. It doesn't seem to be well-maintained though. - Perrin -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
