Re: lighter alternative to CGI.pm

[Vennis]

I personnally wouldn't use the next code and strongly advice to create a better running server...

But, FYI, you can parse the parameters manually. Depending on the complexity, you could use this.

If you use this 'wannahave a Big Ball of Mud solution' (i love that name) make sure you check the parameters for security problems.

my $input;
if ($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} eq 'GET'){
    $input = $ENV{QUERY_STRING}; 
} else {
    read(STDIN,$input,$ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH}); 
}
foreach( split(/&/,$input)){
    $_ =~ tr/+/ /;
    my ($name,$value) = split(/=/,$_,2);
    $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
    if($param{$name}) {
        $param{$name}.= ",$value"; 
    } else {
        $param{$name} = $value; 
    }
    print "Found $name = $value\n";
}

[perrin]

There's really no need to resort to that. Using a properly coded module does not add significant overhead. Replacing CGI with CGI_Lite turned out to improve overall performance of the script by 60%.