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"R. Joseph Newton" <rjnewton@efn.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to feed a query string to a perl script from the command
line? I have some scripts that run well under IIS, but not on the Unix
server where I will be porsting them when they go live. I've checked the
obvious things-- it has the proper #!/usr/bin/perl-w header, it addresses
only files in the same folder, so should not have any path delimiter issues.
The newlines have all been striped of CRs.
>
> What I would like to do over telnet is to feed the app a query line, as if
from a browser, and receive the output that would be sent. Is there any way
to prime STDIN and the ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} so that my app behaves as it
would were the input to be submitted by a POST request?
>
CGI.pm has this functionality built in. Pass a query string as an argument
to the script:
./mycgiprog.pl firstName=todd&lastName=wade
Todd W.
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