The CGI spec specifies what you be on the command line, in the environment and on standard input. Among other things, it explicitely states "The command line is only used in the case of an ISINDEX query.", a type of request I haven't seen used since 1995.

Update: Untested:

my $response;

{
   # Protect the parent script's environment.
   # I hope this doesn't remove %ENV's magic.
   local %ENV = %ENV;

   $ENV{SERVER_PROTOCOL} = 'HTTP/1.0';

   $ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} = 'GET';

   # To build URLs.
   $ENV{SERVER_NAME} = 'www.example.com';
   $ENV{SERVER_PORT} = 80;
   $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} = '/some_script.cgi';

   # For /xxx.cgi/path
   delete $ENV{PATH_INFO};
   delete $ENV{PATH_TRANSLATED};

   # Unset these for POST.
   $ENV{QUERY_STRING} = 'blah=foo&larh=bar';

   # Set these for POST.
   delete $ENV{CONTENT_TYPE};
   delete $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH};

   $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} = '127.0.0.1';


   # Need to place data on child's STDIN for POST.
   # Need to place data on paramater line for ISINDEX queries.

   $response = `perl some_script.cgi`;
}

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In reply to Re: CGI from another script by ikegami
in thread CGI from another script by rsiedl

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