Hi there Monks!

I have this AJAX call to a non- CGI Perl script where I am trying to pass values to the Perl script. If I pass like this:
...
$("#send").click(function(){
    
    $.ajax({
         type: 'POST',
         url: 'process.pl?first=<TMPL_VAR NAME="FR">&last=<TMPL_VAR NA
+ME="LA">',
         dataType: "json",
         success: function(data) {

           if(data){
             alert("We pass!");
           }
         },
         error: function() {
           alert("We have a problem!");
         }
     });
  });
...

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And expecting in the Perl script like this: process.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl  

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;
my $first = $q->param("first");
my $last = $q->param("last");

print "F=$first - L=$last\n";

exit;

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I got nothing!

Passing like this from the AJAX:
...
url: 'process.pl?<TMPL_VAR NAME="FR"> <TMPL_VAR NAME="LA">',
...

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And in the Perl script:
...
my ($first, $last ) = @ARGV;
print "F=$first - L=$last\n";
...

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It will print from values in "$first", but "$last" is empty!
Any suggestions?

Thanks for looking!

In reply to Passing values from an AJAX call to non-CGI Perl script by Anonymous Monk

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