Manually add parameters in perl cgi

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

Hi
I've written a cgi script and it does the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib :standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
print "<center>";
print $q->h1('Let\'s do something!');
print "</center>";
print $q->start_html(-title => 'Do something');
print $q->end_form;

our %in;
&ReadParse(%in);
my @keys = keys %in;
my @values = values %in;
main();

sub main{
    print "<center>";
    my $q0 = new CGI;
    print $q0->start_form(
        -name    => 'sniff_button',
        -method  => 'POST',
        -enctype => &CGI::URL_ENCODED,
    );
    print $q0->submit(
        -name     => 'button',
        -value    => 'Do something',
    );
    print $q0->end_form;
    print "</center>";
}
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What I want to do is add some parameters manually, because the next that depends on the previous state and not only on the current state (So I have to pass a parameter twice.).
I've done stuff with param() and URI, but none of them work. Any advice?

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Re: Manually add parameters in perl cgi by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Sep 05, 2014 at 18:26 UTC
Howdy, TheChosenOne, and welcome to the Monastery! It's not clear to me what you're trying to accomplish. Can you explain what you're trying to accomplish? Please see I know what I mean. Why don't you? and How (Not) To Ask A Question; the monks will be able to help you much more effectively once they understand your problem. In the meantime, here's a few general tips: Start the document body before outputting `<center>` tags and headers. Don't end a form before having started one. Don't use a `main()` routine. If you do, at least put all your "main" code into it. Don't use several CGI objects for the same page. In fact, if you can avoid it, don't use CGI at all, opt for one of the modern web frameworks instead.	[reply]
Re: Manually add parameters in perl cgi by zentara (Archbishop) on Sep 05, 2014 at 19:45 UTC
Just add them like this: #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use CGI 'cgi'; use LWP::UserAgent; our ($secure_server_address,$cgi_directory); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; #my $test= 'FALSE'; my $test= 'TRUE'; my $relay; my $cgi = new CGI; my %input= $cgi->Vars(); foreach $name (keys %input){ $value = $input{$name}; $relay .= "$name=$value&"; } # adding fields here $relay .= "Ecom_transaction_complete=$test&"; $relay .= "IOC_response_code=0&"; open (RT,">test/respgen.test"); print RT $relay; close RT; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $req = HTTP::Request->new (POST => "$secure_server_address$cgi_dire +ctory/boacc.pl"); $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content("$relay"); my $res = $ua->request($req); print $res->as_string; [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Manually add parameters in perl cgi ( no ReadParse no CGI->Vars by Anonymous Monk on Sep 05, 2014 at 20:07 UTC
I've done stuff with param() and URI, but none of them work. Any advice? Can you show that "stuff"? Also, "new CGI" does not mix with ReadParse , and ReadParse is just another word for CGI->new->Vars, and CGI->new->Vars is broken by design use CGI->param instead of CGI->Vars , CGI->Vars has caveats , its broken by design `$ perl -MCGI -e " CGI::ReadParse(); dd( \%in )" ro=row ro=you bo=boat +bo=diddly { # tied CGI bo => "boat\0diddly", ro => "row\0you", }` [download] You know what \0 is? Its null character ... `use Data::Dump qw/ dd /; use CGI; my $q = CGI->new('ro=row;ro=you;bo=boat;bo=diddly'); my %in = map { $_ => [ $q->param($_) ] } $q->param ; dd( \%in ); __END__ { bo => ["boat", "diddly"], ro => ["row", "you"] }` [download] Also there should be no code outside of subs, pass arguments and write more subs like sub DebugCGI in UTF-8	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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