Most gracious of monks.

I've written a small input form for a local charity, I decided to use CGI::Ajax as a learning experience for myself.

However, I feel ashamed and am having a complete BrainFart, and have gotten to the point of forgetting how to do the simplest. I'm making a small stupid mistake here and I can't see it.

When the user hits "submit" the fields are passed to a sub in another file, using CGI::Ajax. However, I keep getting an error stating

CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers

It is obviously telling me there's something wrong with my paramaters, however doing something as simple as this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

sub insertVals
{
  my $str="num:".scalar(@_);

  for(my $i=1;$i<scalar(@_);$i++)
   {
     $str=$str."<p>$_";
   }
   return $str;
}

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... returns the CGI error. If I simply do this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

sub insertVals
{
  return "num:".scalar(@_);
}

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It displays num:10 as expected.

Lastly, here's the code that's calling the procedure: 

insertVals(['pTD','pLocation','p1','p2','p3','p4','p5','pNum','pGameNo
+tes','pGameId'], ['dbPostDiv'] );

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I'm stuck in a loop here and need help out. I am wondering if anyone encountered this before? Should I check and see if the paramater is undefined? And, as always, if anyone knows of a better way, I'm all ears.

Thanks in advance. I shall sacrifice the wings of chickens and bottles of ale in appreciation of any help. :)

Additional thoughts... Using CGI::Ajax, how can I retreive the entire http string that's passed to the perl function ie: http://www.mysite.com/ajax.pl?param1=balh¶m2=bwagh.... etc..

Thanks again.

In reply to CGI::Ajax and passing the paramaters. by naveed010

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