While I've seen worse form data parsers, this one doesn't handle multivalues and probably has security issues (although I don't remember why at the moment of this writing).

You can avoid this and a lot of cut+paste by using CGI; the following code replaces the one in your post, gaining named features and not losing anything:

use CGI;                          # use the CGI.pm module
my $query = CGI->new;             # create a CGI object called "$query
+"

            # if you actually need all form data in a hash,
            # do this:
my %formdata = $query->Vars;      # get all form data in hash "%formda
+ta".

            # does handle multivalues, although not too well;
            # see the CGI manual on "multivalue" for more on that topi
+c.

my $yip = $query->remote_host;    # get the remote hostname or address

# my $link = $formdata{link};     # one way of getting the link parame
+ter.
my $link = $query->param('link'); # another way of getting the link pa
+rameter.

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Cheers, Sören

In reply to Re^3: html code cleanup via GET by Happy-the-monk
in thread html code cleanup via GET by Anonymous Monk

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