How do I get CGI Parameters through a server-parsed HTML page?

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

I've got a server-parsed html page (say, filename.shtml) which contains an "include virtual" directive that looks like

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi" -->
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If I call this page as

http://domain.tld/filename.shtml?key=value&key2=value2
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how can I tell the CGI module to parse the QUERY_STRING from the original REQUEST_URI so that the CGI will behave as if I called it directly as

http://domain.tld/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?key=value&key2=value2
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? Thanks for your help.

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Re: How do I get CGI Parameters through a server-parsed HTML page? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 19, 2002 at 14:32 UTC
You can't. If you use the deprecated #exec cgi directive rather than #include virtual, then they will be available. But why not just have the entire page be generated by CGI? That would make more sense.	[reply]
Re: How do I get CGI Parameters through a server-parsed HTML page? by mendeepak (Scribe) on Jun 06, 2013 at 06:07 UTC
it will be better for you to generate the enitre page by cgi as suggested by merlyn. Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]