I'm having a difficult time after upgrading from Perl 5.8.1 to 5.8.8.

I support an application that creates a CGI object, calls the CGI::path_info($new_pathinfo) method with a parameter to set the variable in the object, and then spits out a URL by calling CGI->url(-relative=>0,-query=>1,-path_info=>1).

This simple script exhibits the differing output between the versions of the Perl interpreter:

The Code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;

print $cgi->header();

print("Created CGI.<br>\n");
printCgi($cgi);
$cgi->path_info("/pathinfo1");
print("Set path_info to \"/pathinfo1\".<br>\n");
printCgi($cgi);

sub printCgi(){
    my $cg = shift;
    print("***********************************************************
+*******<br>\n");
    print("        URL: ".$cg->url(-path_info=>1,-relative=>0,-query=>
+1)."<br>\n");
    print("path_info(): ".$cg->path_info()."<br>\n");
    print("***********************************************************
+*******<br>\n");
}

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The Output:

When I browse to http://servername/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi/AAAA on a server with Perl 5.8.1, I get this output: 

Created CGI.
******************************************************************
URL: http://servername/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi/AAAA
path_info(): /AAAA
******************************************************************
Set path_info to "/pathinfo1".
******************************************************************
URL: http://servername/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi/pathinfo1
path_info(): /pathinfo1
******************************************************************

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If I browse to the EXACT SAME SCRIPT on a server running Perl 5.8.8, I get this output: 

Created CGI.
******************************************************************
URL: http://servername/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi/AAAA
path_info(): /AAAA
******************************************************************
Set path_info to "/pathinfo1".
******************************************************************
URL: http://servername/cgi-bin/cgitest.cgi/AAAA/pathinfo1
path_info(): /pathinfo1
******************************************************************

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This change in the behavior of the CGI module is causing me big headaches. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know!

Thanks,
Jason

In reply to CGI Module behavior changes between Perl 5.8.1 and 5.8.8? by jsignal

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