Here's a way to do "by hand":

Please don't do this. It is shown here for illustrative purposes only 

## First, grab any GET stuff (overrrides POST)
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET") {
  $sinstring = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}
}
## Could change this to a simple "if" to allow GET *and* POST
elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST' && 
       $ENV{'CONTENT_TYPE'} eq "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") {
  ## Okay if CONTENT_LENGTH is 0...
  read(STDIN, $sinstring, $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH});
}
else { ## Last ditch efforts, no REQUEST METHOD found
  ## Any GET info?
  $sinstring = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
  ## Any POST info?
  $sinstring || read(STDIN, $sinstring, $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH});
}

## Find all of our sins:
for (split(/\&/, $sinstring)) {
  if (($sin_name, $sin_val) = /(.*)=(.*)/) { ## Normal...
    $sin_val =~ tr/+/ /;
    $sin_val =~ s/%(..)/pack('c',hex($1))/eg;
  }
  else { ## Abnormal...
    $sin_name = $_; $sin_val = "0";
  }
  $sin_name =~ tr/+/ /;
  $sin_name =~ s/%(..)/pack('c',hex($1))/eg;
  $sins++;

  if (defined $sin{$sin_name}) { ## Allows for "0" cases....
    $sin{$sin_name} .= '#' . $sin_val;
  }
  else {
    $sin{$sin_name} = $sin_val;
  }
}

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In reply to Re: How do I get at the parameters in my CGI program? by turnstep
in thread How do I get at the parameters in my CGI program? by vroom

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