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Using CGI I have the following code

#! /usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use strict;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header;
print $q->start_html(-title=>'macCopy');
print $q->start_form(-enctype=>&CGI::URL_ENCODED, -action=>"myAction.p
+l");
print $q->submit(-name=>'submit', -value=>'GoForIt');
print $q->hidden('hidKey','hidVal');
print $q->endform;
print $q->end_html;

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and it creates the following

<!DOCTYPE html
	PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>macCopy</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="myAction.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="submit" tabindex="1" name="submit" value="GoForIt" /><input type="hidden" name="hidKey" value="hidVal"  />

</form>
</body>
</html>

Please note the "enctype" in the FORM tag

I am looking for enctype ="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

When I omit the -enctype=>&CGI::URL_ENCODED option in start_form to try to get the default value (which should be application/x-www-form-urlencoded)it still defaults to enctype="multipart/form-data"

Can anyone put me right and explain why this is happening ?

Thanks in advance

In reply to enctype problem in CGI by macPerl

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