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[Arsperl-users] Manually passing arguments to a cgi program

[Steve M. <ste...@ch...>]

Can anyone help me with the syntax for passing arguments to a cgi program via the unix command line? Someone else is writing the web interface to the program and I don't want to wait to get the debugging started.
 
 
Thanks!

Re: [Arsperl-users] Manually passing arguments to a cgi program

[Axton <axt...@gm...>]

man wget

see the --post-data option

Axton Grams

On Nov 13, 2007 12:17 PM, Steve McDonald
<ste...@ch...> wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone help me with the syntax for passing arguments to a cgi program
> via the unix command line? Someone else is writing the web interface to the
> program and I don't want to wait to get the debugging started.
>
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Arsperl-users] Manually passing arguments to a cgi program

[Bowman, B. A <Bow...@st...>]

When you run a perl script from the command line, you omit the "?" and
add all of your param=3Dvalue pairs after it.  Like this:

./myscript.pl param1=3Dvalue1 param2=3Dvalue2 param3=3Dvalue3

Then inside the script, you can access these values with the @ARGV
array.  You will have to manually split them because they will have the
equal sign still.  The @ARGV array will look like this:

$ARGV[0] =3D  "param1=3Dvalue1"
$ARGV[1] =3D  "param2=3Dvalue2"
$ARGV[2] =3D  "param3=3Dvalue3"

With a loop lie this, you can get them into the Hash (%Params):

my (%Params,$ame,$value);
foreach (@ARGV) {
  ($name,$value) =3D split("=3D",$_);
  $Params{$name} =3D $value;
}

Now you will get the hash:

$Params{"param1"} =3D "value1";
$Params{"param2"} =3D "value2";
$Params{"param3"} =3D "value3";

The above will not handle array inputs, but you get the idea.

The below recommendation is to access the cgi script on another server
via the command line using http.


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man wget

see the --post-data option

Axton Grams

On Nov 13, 2007 12:17 PM, Steve McDonald
<ste...@ch...> wrote:
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>
> Can anyone help me with the syntax for passing arguments to a cgi=20
> program via the unix command line? Someone else is writing the web=20
> interface to the program and I don't want to wait to get the debugging
started.
>
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Arsperl-users] Manually passing arguments to a cgi program

[Joseph K. <jos...@gm...>]

Steve,

Are you using the CGI Perl module version 2.57 or later? If so, you
can pass the parameters on the command line:

./foo.cgi ticket=25314 action=close user=joeuser key=5df83sk3

Another option is to use the debug flag in your cgi:

use CGI qw( -debug );

This should make the script prompt you for the inputs when you run it
like old versions of CGI.pm did. I have not tried this second method
myself though.

Joe Kubasek




On Nov 13, 2007 12:17 PM, Steve McDonald
<ste...@ch...> wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone help me with the syntax for passing arguments to a cgi program
> via the unix command line? Someone else is writing the web interface to the
> program and I don't want to wait to get the debugging started.
>
>
> Thanks!
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Re: [Arsperl-users] Manually passing arguments to a cgi program

[Clayton S. <cla...@gm...>]

Steve,

Joe has the right idea. Just do as he says and you should be golden.

The docs for the CGI module are on the command line at perldoc CGI
or can be found online at search.cpan.org

-- 

Clayton Scott
cla...@gm...