Sorry for not replying promptly. I was out of work for a few days.

Yes -- my problem is "What's the recommended way to receive HTTP input on multiple channels, while abstracting away which channel(s) was used?".

My CGI script is tiny, has one entry point, it's not a full service, not a big application.

Preferred way would be: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI:Somesolution qw(getAllInputAsHash); 

# user input, decoded from UTF
my $userinput = getAllInputAsHash({decodeUtf => 1});

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I keep using CGI.pm like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 

use CGI; 
use Encode; 

my $cgi = CGI->new;

sub decodedForSomeTypes { 
    $ENV{CONTENT_TYPE} =~ /boundary/ ? $_[0] : decode_utf8($_[0]); 
}

my $params = +{
    map { $_ => decodedForSomeTypes(scalar $cgi->param($_)) } $cgi->pa
+ram()
};

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In reply to Re^5: CGI.pm not good practice, so what is good, modern, practice for reading CGI paramters? by leszekdubiel
in thread CGI.pm not good practice, so what is good, modern, practice for reading CGI paramters? by leszekdubiel

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