Re^3: CGI.pm ignore URL GET query string parameters

I thought I remembered there being a pragma or something that allowed that, but I'm probably misremembering.

Do you mean the invocation method defined at CGI.pm's Creating-a-new-query-object-from-an-input-file of CGI), which has the example:

To create an empty query, initialize it from an empty string or hash:
my $empty_query = CGI->new("");
 
   -or-
 
my $empty_query = CGI->new({});
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This creates your query object without any parameters from the get-go.

Or, if you want to use the parameters at first so that you can extract information, but then delete them before outputting any HTML so they don't pre-populate forms, then you probably want to read Deleting-all-parameters of CGI to find $q->delete_all(); , which will delete the parameters at your whim.

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Re^4: CGI.pm ignore URL GET query string parameters by Danny (Chaplain) on Mar 13, 2024 at 20:39 UTC
"Do you mean the invocation method defined at CGI.pm's Creating-a-new-query-object-from-an-input-file of CGI)" No I was wondering about something like `use CGI qw( -ignore_get_params )`. If that existed it would be a simple way to ignore GET params without having to check `$cgi->request_method()`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: CGI.pm ignore URL GET query string parameters by pryrt (Abbot) on Mar 13, 2024 at 20:57 UTC
No I was wondering about something like use CGI qw( -ignore_get_params ). If that existed it would be a simple way to ignore GET params without having to check $cgi->request_method(). Then no, not as far as I know. Why do you want to avoid `$cgi->delete_all() if $cgi->request_method() eq 'GET';` ? I cannot see how that's any harder or more confusing than the non-existent `use CGI qw( -ignore_get_params )` that you suggested.	[reply] [d/l] [select]