CGI Parameters

[worik]

I wish to read the CGI parameters in FCGI script.
In the old days I used CGI.pm, but it was a bit heavy weight, but it became a bad habit.
I am looking for a simple package to extract the parameters from $ENV{QUERY_STRING} and the STDIN but cannot find anything appropriate.
There is Plack but it is way way too much. Is there anything small and light weight out there?

[hippo]

Take your pick:

• CGI::Lite
• CGI::Thin
• CGI::Minimal
• CGI::Simple (not as lightweight as the others but probably still slimmer than plain CGI)

[Your Mother]

CGI is fine. If you know it and you have an FCGI env, there is no reason to avoid it really; though the lightweight suggestions by hippo are probably good. Plack is *far* more lightweight but it's also not appropriate. It's a framework kit and spec, not directly an application development tool.

[Anonymous Monk]

In the old days I used CGI.pm, but it was a bit heavy weight, but it became a bad habit.

Well it ain't the old days no more :) use CGI.pm, specifically use it through CGI::Fast , nothing else, not even CGI::Simple approaches CGI.pm in terms of CGI -- if Ye olde CGI your goal use the best, use CGI.pm