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in reply to $TAINTED in latest CGI.pm v2.87

the warning is produced from the $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} . ''. it seems $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} is undefined, which causes the 'uninitialized value' message.

why the request method is not set, i'm not sure.

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Re: Re: $TAINTED in latest CGI.pm v2.87
by zentara (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2002 at 15:28 UTC
    You are right. I went back and put CGI.pm v2.87 back in and added
    a line:
    $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} || '';
    
    $TAINTED = substr($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD}.'',0,0);
    
    and it works fine now.  There must be a better idiom for that added line ?
    

      how about

      $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} ||= '';

      but it will replace a false value, such as the number 0. in perl6, that's better written as:

      $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} //= '';

      which will only default undefined values

      ~Particle *accelerates*

      defined or $_ = '' for $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD};

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