I’m just beginning to learn perl and am trying to create a login for my website. My login form takes a username and password and passes that to the login processor (login.pl). I want login.pl solely to determine the success or failure of the login credentials, then, if successful, pass along some user info to another part of the web app. I.e., I don’t want to combine the credential checking and another part of the app, I want to separate the function.

I’ve tried using the exec function, but that runs the script in command line mode instead of CGI, which results in a long delay and a broswer error “The connection was reset”.

How do I end the perl script called by the web form and initiate another script without interaction from the user?

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

System information:
Perl version: v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-Multi-Thread (ActivePerl)
Web server: Apache
This is an XAMPP installation all running local

In reply to How to call perl CGI script from another perl CGI script by Calm

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