For various pragmatic reasons (I don't want to write calendar software scratch) I am invoking a Perl app from within my own Perl code, via the backtick operator:
This exact command, when typed at my c:\> or %> prompts, returns the correct output: month view for June.
However, when invoked via qx or ``, the output is the default view as defined in webcal.cgi (current month, May).

In other words, the name/value paramters seem to get ignored by Perl's backtick operator. You can see an example here:

http://www.hopecancer.org/cgi-bin/site/hcm.cgi?happenings_calendar=

Since this works from the commandline, I don't think that I am dealing with a bug in the script I am invoking. Any suggestions as to where I am losing the name=value params?

Much appreciated,
Pliny.

In reply to backtick ignores parameters by unclepliny

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