Re: [MacPerl] mac perl and cgi

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 21.59 97/4/25, Johnny wrote:
>i just got the O'Reilly CGI book and started hacking out the perl scripts.
>how can i get them to run on mac perl to debug them when the script is
>looking for imput from the browser because it wants to run the following
>line:
>
>&parse_form_data (*simple_form);

Well, normally the form information can be retrieved from the environment
variable QUERY_STRING.  So you can manually set that variable at the top of
your script:

$ENV{QUERY_STRING} = "field1=yes&field2=no&field3=you%20look%20nice";

Hopefully, that'll work for ya.

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