GET url

tarunkhanna has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

machine/cgi-bin/abc.cgi?x=5&y=6
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I am able to access values of x and y through

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
my %form = ();
print header;
print title("Get Form");
print start_html();
print start_form(-method=>'GET',-action=>"abc.cgi?tarun=7&varun=8");
foreach my $p (param()) {
    print "$p<br>\n";
    $form{$p} = param($p);
    print "$p = $form{$p}<br>\n";
}
print submit;
print end_form;
print end_html;
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But I want to modify this statement

print start_form(-method=>'GET',-action=>"abc.cgi?x=7&y=8");
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in a way that it calls url with value of x = 7 and y = 8

If I replace word GET with POST, then also it doesn't give proper results on pressing submit button.

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Re: GET url by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2011 at 06:28 UTC
Go back and spend some time reading through the CGI documentation and examples, especially the -nosticky option Ovid's CGI Course will help, as will CGI Programming 101, CGI Help Guide, Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts	[reply]
Re^2: GET url by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2011 at 06:55 UTC
Whoops, perlmonk.org is currently down, so until http://jdporter.perlmonk.org/cgi_course/ comes back online And until http://web.archive.org/web/20100825091937/http://jdporter.perlmonk.org/cgi_course/ comes back online Try http://web.archive.org/web/20070709150107/http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ In any case, the -nosticky and url_param portions of the CGI docs is what you want	[reply]
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Re: GET url by Anonymous Monk on Oct 13, 2011 at 08:48 UTC
Shouldn't you be using hidden form fields? I don't know of any other method of passing query string parametres with a HTML form.	[reply]


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