Hi,
you didn't mention you're using CGI.pm - If not, that's the recommended way (see previous tips).

However, if this is not possible for some reason, you can write a simple wrapper which emulates the relevant CGI Environment Variables.

This is an (untested) example for emulating the GET environment, which should work for non-perl CGI's as well: 


print &get_response("/path/to/cgi.pl", "test=true");

sub get_response {
  my ($cgi, $CMD) = shift;
 
  ## prepare proper (CGI) environment
  $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = $CMD;
  $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = 'GET';
  $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE} = 'CGI/1.1';
  # add more as needed
  open(CGI, "$cgi |") or die "Can't exec $cgi, $!";
  local $/ = undef;
  my $res = <CGI>;
  close(CGI) or die "Error running $cgi, $!";
  return $res;
}

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Cheers, Joe

In reply to Re: Testing out a CGI script using the command line by joe++
in thread Testing out a CGI script using the command line by racer_x

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