If CGI.pm is deprecated, then what is better solution that is as simple as CGI.pm?

The idea is not to get rid of CGI.pm per se, it's to get rid of multi-entrypoint (per-file) CGI-based architectures, instead having (1) all routes in more or less once place, making it much harder to leave sensitive endpoint not protected by a requirement to authorize and (2) template-based page rendering as opposed to print "<html>", ... mixed with domain-specific logic, which some CGI.pm-based scripts are famous for.

So if you want to have a single script to be called by your web-server using the CGI protocol, you can still use CGI.pm, but please also consider templates. See also: XY problem. What are you trying to build using this CGI script?

In reply to Re: CGI.pm not good practice, so what is good, modern, practice for reading CGI paramters? by Anonymous Monk
in thread CGI.pm not good practice, so what is good, modern, practice for reading CGI paramters? by leszekdubiel

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