Re: [MacPerl] Trouble with CGI

[Don Arbow <donarb@nwlink.com>]

On 4/20/00 at 1:09 PM, s6613535@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us (Christopher
Swope) wrote:

> If I am indeed right, then I would like to know how one reccomends 
> testing a CGI script from MacPerl, without going through the server. 
> Also, once I have it loaded in the cgi-bin of a server application 
> directory, do I have to log in to my own domain, or can I just do an 
> open-->file-->(whatever the form name would be) option.
> 

> 

If you use the CGI module in your script, then if it is called from the
command line (or in the case of MacPerl, RunScript) it works in an
interactive command line mode.  You must enter the variables that you want
to pass into the script like this (the example script merely echoes the
input parameter values, when done entering name/value pairs hit Control-D,
I show perl responses on lines with '>'):

>(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on the keyboard)
foo=fooval
bar=barval
>Content-type: text/html

> 'fooval'<br>
>'barval'<br>'


This little tidbit of information is available in the book MacPerl: Power
and Ease, page 237.

Don

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