I have just a few hours left to complete this project. I have a html text box 
<form id="branch" method="post" action="/WEB-INF/cgi-bin/generate.cgi"
+>

Exact Branch Name : <input type="text" name="textBox">

<input type="submit" value="Generate">

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this is generate.cgi 
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
#use CGI qw(:standard);
my $c = CGI->new();
my $value = $c->param('textBox');

print $c->header();
my $path ="/x/home/path/code";
chdir($path) or die "Cant chdir to $path $!";
system "perl /x/local/perl_code12.pl $value > /dev/null 2>&1";
print "Location: http://host/project/index.html";

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Since I am using a tomcat server, I did all the required modifications in web.xml. The generate cgi is under the project/WEB-INF/cgi-bin. It generates a 404. I need to get the value form the text box, send it to another script which generates index.html and after that, redirect to index.html. Do i need to place my cgi under ROOT/WEB-INF/cgi-bin ? if so how do i connect my html between projects?

In reply to TIME CRUNCH!!! Acessing html textbox value in perl and redirection by venganesan

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