Re: Invoking a cgi script from another cgi script using system()

[Anonymous Monk]

you have to read the source for the CGI.pm module , someone may have edited it to enable/disable @ARGV processing

Although, if your cgi program consisted of

use MyApp;
MyApp->runcgi;

then you wouldn't have to use system to call your cgi program, you could use MyApp .... regular perl programming

[bibliophile]

Ah, yes. That's better :-)

(In the real project, I'm going to pull the guts out of "b.cgi" into a new "c.pm", and have both a.pl and b.cgi use c.pm to do the heavy lifting, without needing to mess about with having a.pl capturing output from b.cgi)

Thanks for the tip on CGI.pm, too. $DEBUG was actually set to 1 (meaning that this *should* have worked...) I still don't know why it didn't work, but I learned something new today, and that's always a win.

Thanks.

[Anonymous Monk]

You could also write like this because webservers won't put stuff into @ARGV

my $query = @ARGV
            ? CGI->new({ @ARGV })
            : CGI->new;

Invoke as

system $^X, 'foo.cgi', qw/ key value key value /;