I spent several days on this problem, and never fixed it. Perhaps, a wise perl monk can see my problem and explain it to me.

I have a form that I use this code for:

print $cgi->start_form(-name=>'new', -method=>"$FORM_METHOD",
                       -action=>'secalert_display.cgi',
                       -target=>'_top');
print $cgi->submit(-value=>'Enter a new record for a Secalert');
print $cgi->hidden(-name=>'MODE', -value=>'new');
print $cgi->endform;

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It compiles cleanly, but at runtime (when I execute the CGI from a browser) and click on the 'Enter a new record for a Secalert' button, It doesn't work. The best I can figure is that it doesn NOT sent the hidden field along with the rest of the stuff.

Now, if I replace this CGI.pm code with simple print statements, as in:

print("<form name='new' method='$FORM_METHOD' action='secalert_display
+.cgi' target='_top'>\n");
print("<input type='submit' value='Enter a new record for a Secalert'>
+");
print("<input type='hidden' name='MODE' value='new'>\n");
print("</form>\n");

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It works fine. Can somebody see what the problem with the CGI.pm version is?

In reply to Whats wrong with this code. by kmullin5016

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