Learn about the current CGI request : Form « CGI « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. CGI
  3. Form

Learn about the current CGI request

 

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

    print "The command line arguments for this script are:\n";
    print join(" ",@ARGV),"\n\n";

    print "The request information available to the script includes:\n\n";

    print "REQUEST_METHOD =  ",$ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"},"\n";
    print "PATH_INFO = " ,$ENV{"PATH_INFO"},"\n";
    print "PATH_TRANSLATED = " ,$ENV{"PATH_TRANSLATED"},"\n";
    print "SCRIPT_NAME = " ,$ENV{"SCRIPT_NAME"},"\n";
    print "QUERY_STRING = " ,$ENV{"QUERY_STRING"},"\n";
    print "CONTENT_TYPE =  ",$ENV{"CONTENT_TYPE"},"\n";
    print "CONTENT_LENGTH =  ",$ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"},"\n\n";

    if($ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"} eq "POST")
    {
        $contentLength = $ENV{"CONTENT_LENGTH"};

        if($contentLength)
        {
            read(STDIN,$queryString,$contentLength);
        }
        else
        {
            $queryString = "";
        }

    print "Standard in is:\n";
        print $queryString;
        print "\n";
    }

    1;



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    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Request Initiator</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>

    <H1>GET Form</H1>
    <FORM ACTION="index.pl" METHOD=GET>
    <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" SIZE=60 NAME="DATA">
    <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="SUBMIT" VALUE="SUBMIT">
    </FORM>
    <BR><BR>
    <H1>POST Form</H1>
    <FORM ACTION="PerlCGI/requestinfo.pl" METHOD=POST>
    <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" SIZE=60 NAME="DATA">
    <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="SUBMIT" VALUE="SUBMIT">
    </FORM>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>








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