Re: [MacPerl] CGI/Standard Perl Script combined?

[Dennis Little <dennis.j.little@lmco.com>]

>>Listers,
>>
>>I'm in the process of trying to write a CGI script that will also work from
>>a direct link rather as well as from a form.
>>
>>Here's a little more info that might help explain what I'm trying to do.
>>
>>The site was previously using Active Server Pages (ASP) rather than
>>Links/CGI's.  These would work similar to a CGI in that a link to a page
>>would look something like http://www.test.com/lookup.asp?searchterm.  When
>>clicked, these would then open a file of links, find the appropriate
>>searchterm, and either show the single page found or show a list of llinks.
>>An ASP form would act basicly the same taking the text entered and look in
>>the file of links.
>>
>>I'm trying to replace both of these with a CGI script (my first) and have
>>the form to CGI script (POST and GET) working great.
>>
>>The problem I can't figure out a way to call this from a link directly (ie,
>>no form used) in the same way the ASP does.
>
>calling a cgi through a link should work exactly the same as calling
>one through a form with method=GET.  just, make sure that the text is
>URL encoded (e.g. '+' for ' ').  i use this method exclusively for
>one of my cgi's ( http://www.smalltime.com/nowhere/dictator/ ). if
>you go to that url and play the game you can see that each of the
>links for the questions is actually a call to the cgi which runs
>the game.  please elaborate if that doesn't answer your question.
>
>-gene

Gene (and others but Gene was first),

Many thanks for the help... Your answer and the link you included was
enough for me to spot where I was screwing up.

Thanks again,

me



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