I apologize for this post, but I was unable to find anything relevant using Super Search, The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0 (actually I have version 1.0, but O'Reilly didn't have a link to it that I could find) or perldoc CGI. (Sidenote, the isbn://xxxxxxxxxx is rerouting to Barnes & Noble sans return of the desired content)

I have a Web application that has been in production for 3 years now but have a cosmetic enduser request that I haven't gotten around to. The application allows the enduser to submit a calendar event via mail but, by default, sends the CGI parameters escaped. The endusers want a unescaped layout. Here are the relevant code snippets: 

# ...
open (MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t") or die "Can't fork sendmail: 
+$!";
print MAIL <<EOF;
From: requestor@from.foo.net
To: Receiver@to.foo.net
Subject: Requested Calendar Event

EOF
CGI::save_parameters(*MAIL);
close (MAIL) or die "can't close sendmail: $!";
# ...

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What I'm hoping for is a simple method similar to save_parameters() to handle this. The more I think about it, perhaps it would be better to write a snippet that manually includes only the parms I want (so that spoofed parms don't appear as well). What do you think? TIA.

--Jim

In reply to Mailing unescaped CGI parameters by jlongino

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