I've inheritted a CGI application which I think is a good fit for CGI::Application as it has a lot of "page" states.

Unfortunately these pages are currently called by different parameters - rather than one.

For example I have the following requests:

?page=top
?stats=1
?new=1

Rather than the CGI::Application-styled single run mode:

?mode=stats
?mode=article
?mode=new

Given that I wish all the old historical links to work, is there a way of shoe-horning CGI::Application to work with these parameters? Or would I be better off sticking with my current dispatch-table styled approach?

(I guess I could use mod_rewrite to coerce things, but that seems like the worst of both worlds)

Steve
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In reply to Converting to CGI::Application by skx

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