Hi monks,

I'm trying to use FCGI with CGI::Fast to get the params from the url. My fcgi script is named test.fcgi and I tried accessing it from my browser as test.fcgi?node=appy&action=do_something.

While I'm able to get the value of 'node' in the variable $query, the code doesn't seem to call do_something() that comes from the module Myapp.

####start of script test.fcgi
#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use lib '/path_to_modules/perl5/lib/perl5';
use lib '/path_to_modules/modules';


use FCGI;
use CGI::Fast;
use Myapp qw(appy);

my $n = 0;
my %nodes = (
    appy => \&appy,
    _err => \&error,
);

while ( my $q = new CGI::Fast ) {
    my $query = $q->param('node');
    print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
    ++$n;
    print "You are request number $n. Have a good day!\n";
    print "query: $query\n";
    $nodes{ exists $nodes{$query} ? $query : '_err' }();
    print "done!\n";
}

sub error {
    print "An error occurred.\n";
}
####end of script test.fcgi

####Myapp module

package Myapp;

use strict;
$|++;

use Exporter qw(import);
our @EXPORT = qw(appy);

use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();

sub appy {
    my $action = $q->param('action') || 'bailout';

    my %actions = (
        do_something => \&do_something,
    );
    $actions{ exists $actions{$action} ? $action : '_err' }();
}

#----------------------------------
# subroutine do_something
#----------------------------------

sub do_something {
    print "do something called\n";
}

####End Myapp module

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Am I doing things correctly?

In reply to Getting query string with CGI::Fast by Anonymous Monk

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