Mindful Monks,

I have a standard HTML form for search engine input on a regular HTML page. The form action is set to use GET and to call not a Perl script, but an SHTML page with an embedded SSI-call to a Perl script, like this:

Search Page 

<FORM method="GET" action="search_results.shtml">
<input type="text" name="query">
<input type="submit">
</form>

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search_results.shtml 

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<!--#include virtual="/includes/header.htm" -->
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/search_script.pl" -->
<!--#include virtual="/includes/footer.htm" -->
</html>

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The idea was that the full url of search_results.shtml, being called from a form using GET, will have the search terms tacked on the end as a query substring. So, we'd have search_script.pl read $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}, which is search_Results.pl, and strip the substring off to get the origial search terms.

It would be nice to have cgi-pm do this stripping and formatting, but I don't konw how to get it to do that.

Of course, any smarter way of doing this is welcome too.

Thanks.





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