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.

~Particle *accelerates*

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Re: Re: $TAINTED in latest CGI.pm v2.87
by zentara (Cardinal) 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 ?
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      how about 

      $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} ||= '';

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

      $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} //= '';

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      which will only default undefined values

      ~Particle *accelerates*

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[d/l]
[select]
      defined or $_ = '' for $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD};

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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