Hi Monks,

I'm attempting to call a .cgi script from another one of my scripts and for some reason it is only recognising the first var I pass to it.
i.e. 
`perl some_script.cgi blah=foo larh=bar`;

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and some_script.cgi is only seeing the results from var blah
Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,
Reagen

Update: I've done a bit more investigating and it appears that the script being called from the original script is using the var's from that original script.
i.e. some_script.cgi?blah=foo&larh=bar will pass the vars blah and larh onto the script that some_script.cgi calls...
make sense?
I havent been able to work out how to prevent that and specify my own when I call the script. Anyone?
Here's some code that explains more clearly than I:
script1.cgi 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:all);
print header;

my $blah = `perl ./tmp.cgi 'var1=one&var2=two'`;
print "<pre>", $blah, "</pre>\n";

exit;

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script2.cgi 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:all);
my $q = new CGI;

my $var1 = $q->param("var1");
my $var2 = $q->param("var2");

print $var1, "\n";
print $var2, "\n";

exit;

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The only way I can get var1 and var2 to print is by calling script1.cgi?var1=one&var2=two even though I define that in script1 where I call script2.

In reply to CGI from another script by rsiedl

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