I have a web page that, for various reasons, is using multiple server side includes written in Perl. That is, the edit.shtml file contains lines similar to <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/edit.pl"-->;.

When I link to the page with a parameter, with something like <a href="/edit.shtml?id=200">, I would like to be able to access the id parameter in my perl script using the CGI module. However, the following code snippet fails to recognize them: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI;

my $page = new CGI;
my $id   = $page->param("id");

print $page->header();
print "<P>ID = [$id]\n";

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I would hope that it would print, "ID = [200]", and it does when I link directly to the perl script. But when its an SSI, it prints "ID = []". Is there a good way to get my parameters back short of parsing $ENV{QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED} by hand?

In reply to SSI losing CGI parameters by fred

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