Here's a strange one (and one which will probably make
Lincoln S. wanna rip me a new one).

I am making a web page which passes just one field to a perl script -
a textarea field with multiple lines.
Then that data is fed line by line to a GD.pm based script which
should make an image from the text - but (and here's where we
manage to bring in yet another lstein module) the CGI.pm alters
the basic structure of the text in the text field such that, when
the data gets to the GD calls (parsed via CGI's param) GD will
balk after just the first character (or space).

Manually hitting the script with the url like
http://my.site.org/script.pl?text=I+Like+Ike works fine. But
passing that text via a form does NOT.

Are we having fun yet?

What does this little button do . .<Click>; "USER HAS SIGNED OFF FOR THE DAY"

In reply to CGI parsing difficulty by tame1

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