CGI.pm is part of the standard perl distribution so should already be installed. You can install virtually any module locally but you should not need to. No major recoding is required. Just use what you want, CGI.pm is a huge module and few people use all its many features - at least in the one script. See Use CGI or die; and No excuses about not using CGI.pm cheers
tachyon
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More than likely, CGI.pm is already installed on your system. If for some reason it isn't, yes, it would probably make life a little easier for it to be installed, but you can use a private copy, provided you use lib at the top of your script. For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib "/my/module/directory";
use CGI;
Perl will then look in your specified directory for the module before looking through the the default directories in @INC.
As far as re-coding if you use CGI.pm goes, the short answer is technically, no, you don't have to re-code everything. Others may disagree with me, but personally, I'd be inclined to just use CGI.pm for the parts in question for the time being. Once you get it working, dig into CGI.pm a bit further and see if there are ways to make your script better and more efficient by taking advantage of more of the features of CGI.pm.
That's my 8**(1/3) cents. Hope that helps.
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I'm sure you're getting a 404 error because there's either something wrong with your header or your URL is wrong (most likely the latter, IMO). Your redirect header also needs to be the first thing printed from your script.
To answer your other questions: If you're using perl, you can use CGI in most cases. The CGI perl module is part of all modern perl distributions. And in terms of using "parts" of CGI- yes, you can. Another lovely thing about perl is that it doesn't force you into one way of doing things. Why don't you try the code that Projekt21 suggested and see what shakes out?
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I thought I replied but it seems to have vanished. I did indeed have the URL wrong. I will look into CGI.pm though because it seems to do things a lot easier than what I am used to. Thanks again for all your assistance.
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