By coincidence I was just discussing something like this over the weekend at Re: Re: Re: Re: Symbol table globbing from object refs. From that, one solution is to write a custom can method for CGI that you can then submit to the maintainer.

Here is a cheap alternate solution that involves poking into internals: 

sub load_in_cgi {
  my $func = shift;
  eval {
    local $CGI::AUTOLOAD = $func;
    CGI::_compile();
  };
}

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This is basically what you have already but it avoids actually calling the method.

The third approach is to use isa and fallback on can. That is, assume that any CGI object will do what you want, but be willing to accept just having the methods. That avoids having to poke around in internals.

In reply to Re: UNIVERSAL::can and autoloaded methods by tilly
in thread UNIVERSAL::can and autoloaded methods by cees

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