I have no problem with alternatives! My only problem was that all of the aternatives in the "old" ALTERNATIVES were all too ambitious. I'll look at mojolicious::Lite and the others mentioned.. It has been more than a decade since I messed with CGI.pm and so I'd have to learn anything that I decided to use.

I can't tell much about mojolicious::Lite because the docs seem to be focusing it on a subset of mojolicious, and I'm not really interested in learning a big "frameworkd" just so I can use a mini-package that only implements part of it.

CGI::LITE and CGI::SIMPLE both look like just what I was looking for! The main difference I can see {for my purposes} is that ::SIMPLE includes the calls to set up simple HTML responses. I vaguely remember that I could/did do "my own" HTML responses and it was pretty simple {and mostly I didn't bother with CGI's html-construction stuff}, but I don't remember how any more so I might swing towards ::SIMPLE and let it handle the headers and such.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Recommendation: CGI for a remote procedure call by BernieC
in thread Recommendation: CGI for a remote procedure call by BernieC

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