Re: Re: Script call with arguments in a script call with arguments...Possible?

[Caillte]

in reply to Re: Script call with arguments in a script call with arguments...Possible?
in thread Script call with arguments in a script call with arguments...Possible?

You have really answered your own question. Provided your script is run on an account with net access and provided your script can run within the normal CGI restrictions (server timeouts etc) then, yes, you can use LWP to get the second script from within the first.

Remember, to the OS the site is being hosted on, any CGI program is essentially just a script/program with it's output piped into another program. When you view it like that you can realise that there is little stopping you from doing anything! ;)

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[S_Shrum]

My past experience with CGI and URI's of this nature was that it couldn't be done in the manner stated above (in a standard URL). The problem was the CGI would rip the second 'nested' arguments as arguments for the first.

Right? As a result, what must be done to perserve the 'nested' call in its entirity. Let me pose another example

http://www.mysever.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?this=that&tisk=task&test=http://www.mysever.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?&tisk=that&this=task&foo=bar

Note that &foo=bar is meant to be a outer script call argument and not a nested script call argument. So I guess I need to know if I can pass the nested URL as a string that CGI won't rip apart. ala:

http://www.mysever.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?this=that&tisk=task&test='http://www.mysever.com/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?&tisk=that&this=task'&foo=bar

Yes, I know I can use LWP to process the nested call (this is what I want to do), but how do I pass this into the script call without CGI ripping it apart.

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